It’s all just loosely ideological gangs at this point. As soon as you choose to identify with one the gang starts to become more important than the ideology ever was. The only political conversations worth having are about specific policies, implementation, and outcomes. Everything else is just gang colors and slogans.
Yeah. Humans are tribal. It’s natural to want to defend your grouping whether they’re right or wrong, it’s as much built in as liking to eat good food and being happy at the beach.
It’s all just loosely ideological gangs at this point. As soon as you choose to identify with one the gang starts to become more important than the ideology ever was. The only political conversations worth having are about specific policies, implementation, and outcomes. Everything else is just gang colors and slogans.
Yeah. Humans are tribal. It’s natural to want to defend your grouping whether they’re right or wrong, it’s as much built in as liking to eat good food and being happy at the beach.
I don’t give people a pass on mindless tribal politics just because it’s ‘human nature’. Modern humans have a choice.
100% agreed. I wasn’t saying it at all as a good thing or justified when it happens, just observing that it’s surprisingly common / easy to fall into.