Correct. I fell for this trap for years, thinking I was making a difference getting engaged in political arguments. The truth is, I gained very little from this. While it might feel good to put your opinion out there (and practice defending it), the truth is, most people understand little to nothing about how the system works, so most of that time will literally go to waste.

In fact, it will probably be worse than that, because not only are people wasting their time debating something they understand very little about, they also tend to get extremely emotional about it (i.e. unnecessarily upset when things aren’t going their way).

The truth is, politics really changes very little in our day-to-day lives, despite the constant insistence of pundits from every side that the world is literally about to come to end because of , and this time it’s for real.

But in almost all cases, first of all things likely won’t get either substantially better or substantially worse regardless of who’s in office, and second, your getting involved is likely going to do little to nothing to change the outcome. So it makes much more sense to just focus on your own life and the people you love and work on things you can actually make a difference about.