His name was James, and he was leaving the company and I was transferring to his department and moving into his office to assume many of his duties. It was an area where I had worked before, so we had informal discussions about responsibilities as opposed to training sessions. I had known and worked with him for some years, but I had never heard him make a political remark of any sort. Usually, after you spend enough time with someone, they'll let one slip even if they're not a political junkie. But not him. So, one day I steered the discussion into politics and asked for his political philosophy.
He thought for a moment before replaying "They're all crooks." He went on to say that they were all liars, untrustworthy, and were only in it for the power/prestige/money. Further, he said that political parties were all the same, nothing would ever change their or politicians' behavior, so why should he even bother to get involved? This was only a few months after Obama's first inauguration, so I asked him his opinion of his performance so far. "No better or worse than anybody else" or words to that effect. It was more positive a response than I had anticipated. I asked about his parents, and I got the impression he learned his apolitical attitude from them.
It's so easy to think in simplistic terms of us vs. them. Clearly anyone not on our team must be on the other team. But occasionally I remind myself that this country is populated with people like James, who want no part of politics nor engagement with either side. They're not bad people, and certainly not RWNJs. Probably somewhere in the middle. Fair or not, they see futility in participating, so they never vote or get involved. I believe they would say it's all just politics and that our democracy is not under attack, but that's where they diverge from your other statements.
TL;DR: not everyone not on our team is a RWNJ, some people are just apolitical.
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