The term political seems to have no meaning any more. Like terrorist, it has turned into a word that means what the speaker wants it to mean.
In practice, it is now "political" to simply describe something that people don't want to know more about.
Think Iraq under US Occupation shouldn't have the highest infant death rate in the world? Think it should not be the case that the US has prisons for whole families of immigrants who aren't allowed to see lawyers or have timely trials?
That's political. Because sooner or later a discussion of how things are has to become "What are we going to do about it?"
I don't feel too bad about "being a little political" these days. As the kids in Iraq and the Prison Camps will tell you, its an uncomfortable time.
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