Understanding politics is too complex for most people I know

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9. It has to do with how wide your circle of awareness is

By that I mean what you care about. If you're the type of person who cares only for people you know then you don't ponder on the connection between politics and what happens to them. You think about the things that have a direct impact on their lives only. If they lose their jobs very few people see beyond that loss, or what caused it other than vague terms like "downsizing" or moving the company away. Yet still politics isn't considered as being part of it.

You have to feel some sort of kinship or connection to humanity as a whole in order to see that things are connected. Then you can understand that what happens on the opposite side of the planet can affect you. Then is when people begin to understand politics and just how profoundly it affects our everyday lives.

Invariably people who understand politics are people who see, or try to see the larger picture of cause and effect. You must expand your circle of awareness to encompass the rest of humanity that you don't know directly.