Then you need to be clearer what you mean. Some single mum with two kids and debt up to her eyeballs is not magically a proponent of conservative politics just because she has more pressing issues than politics.
Again, you seem to be thinking there is something grand and out of the ordinary about politics. Like the cliched single mom with 2 kids and debt is not being political in her everyday choices and in the fact that she is part of a larger economic political landscape that keeps her in debt, and a larger socio-political landscape that keeps her status as a single mom relatively stigmatized.
You do seem to be confusing conservatism (keeping the status flow going) with being a member of (a) Conservative party. I don't know if you are truly confused about the difference or if you're just doing it to have something to argue about, but I think you do understand the difference, as I explained in the rest of my post that you quote:
E.g. if you are for gay rights and yet you say nothing when people around you use the word gay as a derogatory term, and you say nothing when someone says that gay people are just sick, and you do nothing to show that you are for the equal rights of gay people, you are, in your passivity, in your silence, allowing homophobia to go unchallenged around you. Hence that is essentially passive conservatism, not in the sense that you are actively trying to keep the status quo going, but because you are not saying or doing anything at all to change the status quo.
It's kind of like Newton's 1st law of motion - without resistance, things will continue in the direction they're going. If you choose to act in any way to resist that trajectory, you are already not being passive in your politics anymore.
The example of the single mom perfectly explains what I've been saying all along. Politics is NOT about giving up the rest of your personal life and going and camping out in front of the House of Commons in the rain forever. Politics is about your everyday choices in what you do and say, and every one is already engaged in some way or another, depending on the areas of life that she or he values.
The single mom may not care so much about e.g. the debates over capitalism but may be involved in a local single mom's advocacy group that goes after dead beat dads, or she may be getting counseling for having been abused and possibly become a counselor herself one day. She may decide to go back to school once her kids are grown up and get involved in tuition hike protests. She most likely will also express her politics by teaching her kids about issues that matter (to her).
Point is, nobody is exempt from politics, as politics is about the power relations between people. Not everyone is going to be in the same position in any society, whether it's engagement on a political level, or their stance on various issues. That is the point, actually, because we are all products of power relations that have been going on since long before us as individuals. That doesn't mean we are not all part of the politics of our locality, society, etc.
What does "passive support" even look like? "Support" as a word carries meaningful connotation, not least of which is the implied active effort or approval.
supportsup·port
verb (used with object)
1.
to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
2.
to sustain or withstand (weight, pressure, strain, etc.) without giving way; serve as a prop for.
3.
to undergo or endure, especially with patience or submission; tolerate.
4.
to sustain (a person, the mind, spirits, courage, etc.) under trial or affliction: They supported him throughout his ordeal.
5.
to maintain (a person, family, establishment, institution, etc.) by supplying with things necessary to existence; provide for: to support a family.
Most of these are actually a passive act, i.e. one doesn't have to be out there holding banners and being caught on tape to be supportive of something. Support literally means keeping something propped up, sustaining something.
E.g. Many Muslims will claim that just because they don't say anything against the anti-apostasy rhetoric Islam preaches, and they don't do anything with their words, choices or actions to show they support freedom of conscience for apostates, that that does not mean they support the rhetoric that says apostasy is a crime and apostates should be killed. However, whatever they may think in their minds, if they do nothing to express it, the lack of doing
something, anything about it effectively means they
let the apostasy stigma and persecution go on. Their apathy and lack of any kind of action translates into other Muslims remaining complacent about it too. That IS a political stance even if the Muslims in question insist that they don't
really support apostasy punishments. If they don't do anything about it, they effectively let those Salafis, orthodox Muslims etc. who
are doing something about it win.
I am sorry if this is all disturbing. Politics IS disturbing. You realize that we are part of larger power structures and it's not pretty and comforting and cute. But the fact is complacence is compliance. We can't all be involved in everything, but it's a good idea to be involved in things that matter to us to the extent that we can be involved and active, instead of being passive supporters of the status quo.
Topic: Political views