I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
like I get what you're saying and I'm just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it's just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity's greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you're ignoring what came before, you're just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.
It just means that they have no idea what they're talking about, don't know any of the ideologies in any detail and can not place their own politics appropriately.
99.9% chance this person falls into one of the ideologies extremely clearly but they're simply not politically active or educated enough to know.
Absolutely. The "best" you'll get from people like this is knowing what policies democrats and republicans claim to support, and they think some are good and others are bad. Although even then a lot of the time it's shit like "I'm pro life but I don't want to impose that on other people." or "I'm pro education."
I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
but how do you follow no one
like I get what you're saying and I'm just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it's just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity's greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you're ignoring what came before, you're just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.
It just means that they have no idea what they're talking about, don't know any of the ideologies in any detail and can not place their own politics appropriately.
99.9% chance this person falls into one of the ideologies extremely clearly but they're simply not politically active or educated enough to know.
Absolutely. The "best" you'll get from people like this is knowing what policies democrats and republicans claim to support, and they think some are good and others are bad. Although even then a lot of the time it's shit like "I'm pro life but I don't want to impose that on other people." or "I'm pro education."