It’s one thing to “not care about” politics. But don’t be stupid about it. If our government wasn’t guided in any way by lobbyists, then it would have collapsed soon after it began. As odious as they may be sometimes, lobbyists are at least experts about the business and legal issues they represent. Legislators with no more guide to national policy than their own good sense would leave us… well, you should have already been horrified by the idea of “legislators with good sense”.
Seriously, though, since legislators like to make laws to set national policy in all kinds of areas, including (and maybe “especially”) in areas in which they have no knowledge whatever, lobbyists at least aid in keeping them informed as to what some of the intended and unintended consequences of their acts will be.
Furthermore, some political promises should not be kept, or cannot be kept without even more disastrous consequences. It would be more useful if citizens and voters (such as yourself, for example) would recognize which promises those are and politic strongly against candidates making such sweeping statements. For example, politicians cannot “create jobs”, unless they hire more government workers. Since our taxes pay for those salaries and benefits, we need to recognize that “creating new government branches and jobs” is not going to help the economy, for the most part. (It’s not impossible, just unlikely.) For another example, a candidate who promises that “we will cut all defense spending” or equally outlandish promises, which might sound good at first, will significantly weaken and degrade our defense. (Not that it couldn’t stand ‘some’ – even ‘significant’ – cutbacks.)
But with that aside, the current “debt ceiling” issue is not an emergency. It could well become one if the US threatens massive default on debt obligations (and since Social Security is not a “debt obligation”, it will be sacrificed at least temporarily in favor of those). But for now it is a political issue, not much different than any other except for the stakes being played for and the ticking clock. In case of real emergency, the President does have broad – temporary – powers. This is not that time.