This is it. Pay. Attention. You could hear the panic in James Carville’s voice when he said it.

It should not be socially acceptable for a grown adult to say “I don’t have time to pay attention to politics. I’m too busy going to work and raising my kids.” Being a responsible/reasonably informed citizen is not an adult responsibility reserved only for the jobless and the childless.

I’m sick of irresponsible entitled people thinking they’re special with shit like this (and other lazy bullshit infantile excuses like “they’re all the same”, “politics is stupid”, and “you just don’t know what to believe”). In the aggregate it’s a huge part of why we can’t have nice things in America.