Because people prefer simple heuristics that allow them to make whatever claims of causation they want. This concept has literally infected our general politic

Because people prefer simple heuristics that allow them to make whatever claims of causation they want. This concept has literally infected our general political discourse in the United States. Everything has been boiled down to SAT style analogies that essentially accumulate to the point where large groups of people have moved the goal posts of political discourse from "finding common ground" to "burning and salting each others ground as somewhere only an obvious fool would choose to stand"