I don’t believe to be above or below politicians. I would describe my relationship with them as distant. I just realized they are irrelevant if you make the right choices. I live my life in a way that serves me, and I don’t wait for another human to improve my life. Whenever I wanted change or didn’t agree with something, I simply left and moved somewhere better. I’ve lived in many countries; each time I moved, my life improved significantly. Leaving really is the ultimate voting hack. The beauty of the world is that you don’t need politicians to change things for you; there are always places where the changes you seek already took place. You do, however, have to be comfortable with change, and most people aren’t. In my case, I do pay some taxes, and I happily do so because they aren’t illogically high. Those who pay half their income in taxes should probably evaluate their situation. I would understand why voting then becomes so critical to their lives.
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So, were the politicians in office irrelevant to the people of Springfield, OH, or countless other places across the country whose quality of life has suffered? Or did they just not make the right choices?
I cannot speak to what you reference because I don’t know what happened. But I personally come from a place that doesn’t compare to the US, and I know I had a choice, and I left. It was hard, I didn’t want to, but I did it anyway. And I didn’t wait for anyone to make the world around me better. Those who stayed, they’re not in a good place even though they keep voting harder. They haven’t figured out that politicians are irrelevant when it comes to improving ones place in the world
If politicians are irrelevant, why did you have to leave?
Don’t get me wrong, I say they are irrelevant regarding my quality of life in a particular jurisdiction. They of course are relevant in the impact they create in their jurisdiction over a long period of time. But whether we like it or not, they will do whatever their power allows them to do. Until that power is capped (bitcoin may do this), your vote is just an illusion for you to think you’re involved in the decision making. This is why I have learned that one cannot get attached to a specific location, as in time, that attachment will be used against me by those in power. If you put yours and your family’s wellbeing as your priority, then you simply can ignore what politicians do until it bothers you, in which case you simply move and leave the problem behind. There is always a place coming up as one is going down. It is in this way I see them as irrelevant. Unfortunately humans cannot have nice things for long, and when a society figures out a great status quo, overtime, that society will take it down. There is much precedent about the cycles of civilizations. Once, the best place to be at was Athens, and Rome, and London... And it will keep changing.