If you weren't making an argument then I'm sorry for assuming you were. I'd suggest that you are probably dismissing political alignment too quickly, however.

If you weren't making an argument then I'm sorry for assuming you were. I'd suggest that you are probably dismissing political alignment too quickly, however. Even if they seem similar to you, the difference might seem important to them. Late Roman Christians fought literal wars over the presence of a letter 'i' in a single word, denoting a difference that probably wouldn't seem all that important to someone who wasn't a Christian, for instance.