Politics is so angry because unlike real humans, no one feels a moral obligation to give the benefit of a doubt to an abstraction. Real people command our sympathies; categories do not
Political thought is an abstraction of personal feuds and relationship drama. It's what happens when you strip out the real humans from the scenario.
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For most people politics is "drama thinking" with abstract categories rather than real people. Even worse, categories take the place of neglectful mothers, abusive fathers, the bad neighbor, or whatever, so that a given rant is never really about Trump
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Every political bitchfest is really about mom, or dad, wife or husband, neighbor or stranger
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