The most I get from my close friend when I ask them about anything political (Gaza, Climate change, etc) is a “wow” or “damn”.
With my family members it’s a literal “I don’t care about politics” or “talk to [insert random distant relative name], he knows all about this stuff”
How can I make them care? How can I convince them that this stuff is important and shouldnt shrugged off so easily?
How can I convince them that their boss cutting their wages in half is an important matter that shouldn’t be justified by some abstract notion of “that’s just how it is”?
If they are privileged enough not to care then they may be benefitting from the status quo; it is hard to dissuade someone away from this if they materially gain from exploitation.
Being “neutral” with the staus quo is supporting it; being apolitical in the context of an exploitative system is taking a political stance that they are not vested in changing it.
On the other hand it may also be due to alienation and the empty nihilism of an overbearing crushing system; these folks, however, often feel there is not much that they can do so they are not truly apathetic just dejected.
Some people are just empathetically immature; you have limited time in your life on where you want to emotionally invest in guiding a person to the light.
/edit: spelling/clarity
