I might hate political theory
Why?
Navel-gazing... I can't standing listening to people theorise about other people who sat about theorising about other people's theories. I doesn't really teach you much and you risk ending up in a self-imposed ideological bog. People do things and think things, because they do, most don't adhere to any particular consistency (and those who do worry the hell out of me).
But you've gotta have
reasons for believing policy X is good or policy Y is bad, don't you? It can't just be muh pragmatism, because pragmatism can lead to literally anything depending on what your goals are. If you don't have normative reasons to orient your policies, what's even the point of any policy?
Also, your caricature of theorists as self-absorbed dogmatists is incredibly unfair. Most of them I've known are, as far as I could see, just as open-minded as anyone else, if not more (because they actually
have been exposed to a variety of ideas). I could never myself become a theorist, mainly because I'm a terrible reader, but I have a lot of respect for those who want to go that road.
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