‘Silent Majority’? No, ‘Have a Life Majority’
6th April 2016
Sarah Hoyt lays it down.
I got obsessed with politics early by being exposed to the fact that while I might want to ignore politics, politics doesn’t ignore me, and if you give people with power their head soon enough they’re intruding into your innocent pleasures: cancelling ballet classes; mandating you spend whole days painting murals; decreeing that your grade be by vote of the class… that type of nonsense. And worse.
So I follow politics like a guard dog following an intruder. But most people don’t. Even my husband has no clue what I’m exercised about at any given time. (Weirdly younger son inherited mom’s issue and he’ll roam around the house periodically going “Marshall smash” for reasons his father can’t fathom, relating to names he can’t recognize.)