People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions

Evidence

What struck me was that she did not say that maybe our children can repair the world, as a volunteer would have said, or that we can be an inspiration to our children by working to fix the world, as an activist would say. She was taking political problems personally, and assuming that she could nullify the importance of political problems with individual ingenuity. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1075

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s core question: this shows the negation of positive collective solidarity — the mechanism that keeps people from forming a group, the inverse of mutual-aid solidarity. — connects to: People choose political issues they judge close and doable. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 22; Officials privatized social problems by tracing them all to family and self-esteem — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 412; People accept any suffering they believe is inevitable, blocking political outrage — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 186 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: If personalization is learned not innate, what interactional setting could teach the opposite — treating issues as shared and collective?

Broader Connections

• People accept any suffering they believe is inevitable, blocking political outrage #corroborates (0.82) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 186
• People rationalize political non-involvement through differing accepted explanations. #expands (0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 60
• People legitimize existing social arrangements even against their own interests #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2874