how to get into centricide if i don’t understand politics well (lay-man level lack of understanding!!)

hi. you guys know me as the loser who has posted here twice due to the... dreaded "hyperfixation" 😟

there is a question i have thought about asking before, and i guess i might as well just drop it now because fmk nobody else has really brought it up. there are probably a good hundred or so accountless users or lurkers on this subreddit AND the jreg/other polcomp subreddits, and at least 5 or so of them have to have the same problem as me.

i do not know JACKSHIT about politics.

other than what was taught to me in english or history class, or what certain friends have told me, i really know nothing about politics. not about my own country, not about america, not about other countries, and not about political ideologies in general.

this was kind of a roadblock for me the last time i wanted to get into centricide (like 2 years ago... what was most likely also some sort of hyperfixation or obsession over it). my friends at that time just suggested i research politics but god that's ONE entire fucking can of worms to open. where do you even start with it?

i'm not the smartest, find it hard to wrap my head around very big or difficult topics. shit like chatelier's principle (actual example. this probably exposes my age range if i'm learning this but oh well) or iteration as finding a 'more accurate approximation' of the answer, so i probably have good reason to not understand politics LMFAO (tbh once in an english lesson my classmates made it apparent that they didn't understand how our countrie's political system worked because it wasn't really taught to them).

i'm the kind of dude that needs a 'for dummies' book, or a massive list of reddit eli5 posts to understand shit 😭😭 main takeaway is, i'm kind of stupid. a little silly. what the youngsters call "acoustic" or "restarted". diabolical.

if you have any suggestions or advice then it would be appreciated!! remember, you aren't just helping me, but also those other 5 people sitting and suffering in dead silence :)