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Me personally? I just don't engage time wasting morons. (The fact that I'm engaging with you means I don't put you in the "time wasting moron" category.)

Maybe a better way to say this is "you don't have to engage people who don't share your political bent."

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Thanks for the nice reply.

Sometimes it is not that easy to just ignore what is going and pretend the world is at peace. I find myself taking a stance unconsciously..

I hear you. "Don't engage" is more like an aspirational statement. Though in the last year I've been doing better at it. It may be because I spend more time reading these days than I did a year or two ago.

If your solution to avoiding political anxiety is to deny reality, then you're more likely to fall into cognitive bias and irrational reasoning patterns than accepting you have political inclinations and subjecting them to critical inquiry, being willing to change your mind and so on.

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