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"When someone tells me he is politically neutral, I always ask which politics he specifically has in mind" - Baptism of Fire (The Witcher Book 5)
i don't understand this quote
Some people are apolitical because they can't decide if we should install a stop sign on second avenue or instead use that money to repaint the crosswalk.
Some people are apolitical because they can't decide if it's ok for cops to kill innocent mothers in their car or not.
Because politics encompasses almost everything, to be truly politically neutral would mean having no strong views on anything in life.
It’s possible to be neutral on certain topics, but to be fully neutral you’d have to have no real opinions on economics, immigration, the military, the role of religion, equality, education…
So the quote is saying you can’t truly be neutral on everything, what specific things are you actually neutral on.
You basically are political opinionated or a plant.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Most people would believe themselves to be politically sane and sensible. The people further than them in either direction are too soft or too extremist;so to them, they are politically neutral.
Or: they are for maintaining the status quo, and the person asking is then asking the respondee to specify the current political situation they want maintained to make their political biases explicit