I can't stand the left and right business in politics

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I do sometimes find myself wondering why I bother to keep watching these videos on YouTube of people basically sometimes moaning about stuff on channels such as GB news and Talktv, a lot of those people probably have possibly quite right wing agendas and are biased in what they say. GB news has had it's share of people being sacked for things said on air and has probably regarded a Britain's answer to America's fox news. I'm sure I remember a story once in fox news was convinced there was a "communist" conspiracy in the Muppets show which seems laughable. The stuff they nearly always talk about is immigration, the woke culture being a "leftist" or "liberal" conspiracy (as though being a leftist or a liberal is a "bad" thing), Prince Harry and Megan Markle. I don't really regard myself in this country as a conservative or a completely labour supporting person. I don't if I regard myself as a liberal democrat support but I'd like to think I'm a liberal person and will find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with both sides of the political spectrum.

I just find myself watching them because it wasn't always this stuff they talked about, it was anything. They would ask a sometimes interesting question about something and debate it with maybe two people who had different answers and the debate could sometimes get quite heated but I seem to think I want to hear someone's opinion about something even if it might boil my blood.

We need both extremes in politics. The reason why we need them is to find the middle ground. f we eradicate the far right of the far left we end up with a one sided semi-group dicatorship type of government. If we eradicate both the far left and right we end up with an all out group dictatorship.

What normally happens in a democracy is all extremes are listened to on any given subject. But then decisions are made by the vote, and by sheer numbers of elected candidates will mean that the extremes of each side of the vote will never be passed.

Here in the UK things have gone democratically wrong and most of us refuse to vote in a boycott of the voting system. Before we became associated with the EU most adults who could vote voted. Today the voting figures have never been so low and it shows there is something major wrong with the governing system. Never known it like this. The last time we even had voting numbers similar to the voting numbers we had in the past was with the Brexit vote. In the past there were long queues outside polling stations. Rare to see that today. Maybe 10 to 12 people queuing if they all come at the same time after work? Several thousand voting in a city of a few million people? They count the votes manually in the same day and the results come out the next morning. Doesn't that tell you something!

I gave up on live television a long time ago because I didn't like the idea of the media elite defining the agenda of my political thinking, as it was clear that there was a lot of material outside their narrow boundaries, and I felt the whole thing was a kind of placebo distraction, making people think they could make a significant difference by being "informed" by mainstream media. I prefer to ask my own questions about politics.

I never liked the idea of breakfast television anyway, and I didn't like the idea of paying the BBC license fee.

I do see the left and right thing as an important part of politics though. I think the class struggle is real, and that the proletariat has been losing ground for many years. Just that they're unlikely to discuss that much on the mainstream media. I haven't voted for decades because I don't see anybody worth voting for, and even if I did, my vote would make no difference because I live in a strong Labour ward in the UK and a strong Republican state in the US.

One example of an issue I can't even find with an Internet search is a bill said to be going through Parliament that seeks to allow surveillance of benefit claimants' finances - not just means-tested benefits but also State pension. I suspect it'll get passed without most of the population knowing about it.