You can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
I know they are portrayed as a cabal of woke leftists, but a third of them are veterans and they probably broadly reflect American professional demographics.
You could argue that many of the people voting Trump are also simultaneously ignoring a big chunk of politics and reality more generally I suppose, but it's not the standard meaning of ignoring politics.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...
If you opt out of the system, for the most part the system is not interested in you.
Opting out of the system, in this case, by living in a forest in Singapore, is not an option for most people.
People who are engaged in the system (by e.g. buying things, having jobs, raising a family) are touched by government policy every day.
Sure. They would also die whenever there was a famine, some disease ran rampant, Mongols or crusaders pillaged everything, some recent council decreed they were all heretics, etc.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/08/worlds-loneliest-man-lives-70...
Or the Lykov family.
Because what are you going to do about it? Say the same thing everyone else is saying? But a little different?
That doesn't make any sense. The small minority of people who are involved in politics affect politicians completely disproportionately to their number, and this is completely unrelated to whether they actually know what they're talking about or have reasonable concerns.
See e.g. throwing oil on famous paintings, or everything re Palestine in the past couple of years.
Protesting effectively is a skill which the present generation lacks. They don't even realize it's a skill issue. "Surely if we just care harder somebody will do something..!", they think, over and over. Doesn't make it so.
I will also tell the friends I made/lived with in NDDL that our action had no impact and that the airport is being built (given that a couple of them bought a house where the airport was supposed to be, they might not all believe me).