I’m a Libertarian and my girlfriend is a neo-conservative. We almost broke up over an argument about the Iraq War. I realized afterwards what a waste of time and energy it is to argue politics, especially when the status quo sucks for almost everyone. Im 26 and I know for a fact that my generation will be making the real changes in a decade or two, so why should I lose sleep over things I cant change? Any thoughts?

Politics can be a frustrating, disappointing and uncertain pastime. By not getting involved, your opinion is not even considered.

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Gotcha Tea Party!! Gotcha!! Finally the $100,000 prize will be awarded for getting these racists on tape. This video is gonna be bigger than the Acorn videos, baby. Violent, racist tea party members caught on tape.

Best political conservative comedy playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/NarfBiscuits#p/c/9AC62B3627B4E2CF/0/5ibHFAXGUwo

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I don’t know much about politics currently and I would like to be able to keep up with and contribute to political conversations.

Read Ken Rudin’s blog. He is a pretty even-handed journalist. He covers a lot of detail in an understandable way.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/

If you do not what to read, listen to this pod cast with Ron Elving .

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5495231

Note that I do not ask about ALL answers, I only ask how you perceive answerers to YOUR OWN questions.

I would not give you my own estimate when in Y!A politics, but in science sections I think that about 80% of answerers to my questions know what they are talking about.

I think about half of them. so 50%

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Everyday there are hundreds of new questions/opinions that seem to be designed only to insult and infuriate supporters of the opposite party. Is there another section of Yahoo Answers that is more hateful than the politics section?

Your interpretation of hate is wrong. Wouldn’t it be better interpretted as concern for America’s future?

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Weather is a stupid topic that doesn’t go anywhere.

I don’t follow sports and think they are stupid.

Politics is too argumentative and polarized to talk to people about. I will just make enemies of everyone.

I don’t watch TV and am not familiar with current celebrity events or whatever BS.

How else do you start and maintain a conversation?

Usually conversation centers around the person’s life or what they are interested in. So when you start a conversation with someone for the first time, you can start it like this: "Hello, my name is ____". Then they usually respond with their name and a nice greeting. Once you give them your name, you can ask a question like: "So what is your occupation?" Once you ask then they usually respond with what their occupation is, and then if you have a job you can tell that person what it is you do. Then both of you can find common ground in your occupations, and even past education such as college. You could also ask what college he/she graduated from. It may be small talk, but generally conversation is started about the person’s life. Ask other questions like, "What do you do in your spare time?" The conversation does not have to be centered on weather or politics. Generally that is discouraged because it tends to lead the conversation to a screeching halt. But keep it simple. Just keep it geared towards the other person’s interests since people like to talk about themselves. Then when you get comfortable talk about things that interest you.

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Just making up a small informal poll here.I would like a quantatative estimate (% of time) is taken up by office politics and power struggles, including work that exists solely because of such politics.
1) Where are you located, geographically?
2) Do you work for the public or private sector?

It depends on the people you’re surrounded by and what kind of manager you have. Generally, most offices, I find are filled with backstabbers and @ss kissers. I have problems because I refuse to do either, its an office, its not a sandbox and you’re not in Kindergarten.