To both the parent and GP: I posted a comment that explicitly pointed out that blaming this or that political party is worse than useless. Of all the places on

To both the parent and GP: I posted a comment that explicitly pointed out that blaming this or that political party is worse than useless. Of all the places on the Internet to woof for “red” or “blue” this seems like an especially weird one. It’s a fact of life that there’s a bunch of tribal instinct wired into Homo Sapiens, anyone who’s ever been to a professional sporting event knows that. But handling critical, complicated, delicate issues around the governance of the human race with all the subtlety and nuance of a drunk Chelsea supporter in a pub is uh, not the move. I don’t know how many times humanity needs to go through this tiresome exercise where the prosperous just can’t keep their hand out of the cookie jar, distract the body politic with deliberately inflamed tribal identification, and push it until the plebs epater les bourgeoisie, and we get a new set of assholes owning the damned water every needs to drink before we get to some kind of semi-stable Nash equilibrium, but if I never heard a politician’s name or some appeal to identity politics ever again: it would be too soon.