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that's definitely important, but there are two problems, not everything is important enough to even be discussed in the first place, especially under most contexts that political discussions happen within. It's a waste of time, you would be better off spending your time elsewhere.
There's also the problem of the echo chamber re-enforcement. Differing opinions only help in a productive and collaborative environment, without one, they do nothing and are meaningless. Politics entirely lacks this environment.
I 100% agree with this, people need to spend more time conceptualizing issues, and thinking about them more thoroughly, that's a huge problem here. But again, does it really matter? Should you even care about it in the first place? Would you be better off if you had invested your time into becoming a better person, rather than a more argued person.
This is actually something i've been thinking about over the last few years, and i think i'm starting to finalize it in a semi consumable form at this point. You need a fundamental threshold of importance for the things you care about. Something like a family member getting cancer, probably pretty fucking important. You should probably care about it. Something like a random traffic accident halfway across the country? Literally irrelevant to you. Makes no fucking difference.
If you follow online politics at all, one thing you will notice especially among the right, is how much complete and utter garbage is talked about it on a regular basis. 90% of it is literally meaningless and doesn't have anything to do with you. And yet, people still care about it for some reason, why?
it's the foundation of the political brain rot this country has experienced over the past 50 or so years.