Is Politics Now Just Theater For Those With No Real Other Purpose Or Passion?

Seems that way sometimes.

Start with this article:

Opinion | Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like 'Losing Your Country'

The article references this one.

The author of that second article then says this, as quoted in the first article:

“As people affectively polarize, they appear to blow out-group threats out of proportion, exaggerating the out-group’s dislike and disgust for their own group, and getting ready to defend their in-group, sometimes aggressively,” Kleinfeld argued.

I’ve felt this way for a while, especially about the “blowing out-group threats out of proportion.” Like, remember when a guy shot up a pizza parlor because he thought children were being trafficked inside? Usually a Democrat President just means more woke policies and pandering to one or two affinity groups. It doesn’t mean pedophiles are running the country. And…