Interested in politics?

[Mark]

I know this forum's basic thing (creative writing) is relatively detached from politics, but I was just curious how interested and/or involved some of you writers are in local/national/global policies and government. Feel free to give a little description of your beliefs, why you do or do not follow politics, and so forth. I know political discussions can get ugly, but I'm hoping this will be more of a way just to get to know each other's opinions and local political scenes, rather than for saying who is right and who is wrong.

To get things started; I'm very interested but not at all involved. I'm a 20 year old American who has never voted, nor have I registered. At first I took a very conspiratorial view of US politics, but even now that I feel my vote might matter, I'm pushed away by the partisanship and the exclusive, theatrical campaigning. Still, I think that government is necessary and that when things go wrong, citizens themselves are responsible to differing degrees. For that reason, I'm going to start aiming my college education at a position in public office (along with writing), perhaps at something like the UN. I'm a member of the globalist camp, I suppose. I have strong doubts that the world system of nation-states can possibly deal with future environmental, nuclear, and terrorist threats; I plan on studying continental unions like the EU, maybe with the hope of helping realize such a thing in North America.

[AdventWings]

Am I interested? Well, heck yeah. Even if said government isn't my government. Like America, even though I'm no longer a resident there ('sbeen four years now since I left the US) but I'm still wondering which road the American Society is going to take.

Am I going to get involved? Hell, no. Not directly, anyways. I dread the bureaucracy and all the subterfuge the big wigs kept employing against one another. Indirectly, though, I have a few cards up my sleeves that may "tip" the scales one way or another... *Evil Smirk*

The reason I'm interested in the way the political scene unfolds is because any changes that happen to a single country - or even a single policy, for that matter - has the potential to have very big effects amongst the neighboring/allied/opponent nations which can lead to a shift in national and political alignment. If what we learned from the past had given us any hint of wisdom at all, it all boils down to how misused power can become.

It may sounds like I'm crazy (though I admit to being crazy to begin with) but I'm only looking out for all the people around me. If need be, I may just have to disappear for a while. Hopefully that time may never need to come.