It's almost like the labels we use to classify people, a requirement in today's politics, are only meant to fill the benches in our little red vs blue football game called modern politics. In reality, people don't distinctly fall into just one group. They will, and should, have views that are controversial even within their own party-- except when they're so indoctrinated in the gamesmanship itself that they refuse to believe anything but their own label's beliefs solely for the sake of 'winning' the game. It's not at all about the country as a whole anymore. It's about what team you're on.

At that point, is it really politics? I don't think so, to me it's much more similar to how some people casually discuss american football. I rarely hear people talk about specific tactics or strategy of the game itself, instead we have intense debates about the players themselves and who will bring their team to victory and why other teams are cheaters or how something was unfair. If people do have a strategic opinion, it's only shit that is obvious in hindsight like "why didn't they run it! I could have made a better play!". Sound familiar? I'm not a football guy so I could be misrepresenting sports fans, but it seemed like an apt enough analogy.