When religion became politics, we had the crusades
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When politics became religion, we had the Holocaust and 100M dead due to Communism.
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Seems like religion + politics is the common denominator. Let's keep magical thinking and tribalism as far from politics as possible.
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Reading some Girard?
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Politics became the new religion, because we got rid of the old religion.
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Along with every other scrap of social fabric one can build an identity around: unions, community associations, (most) regional identity, etc.
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Politics are already the new religion https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/10/20/switching-parties-in-trumps-america … more likely to convert religions than switch parties.
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Nature abhors a vacuum
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I thought that already happened 1-2 centuries ago.
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The Opiate of the Masses comes in many different formulas. Ask your doctor if this new faith is right for you.https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1055864889019895808 …
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It already has for many. :(
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Doubt it.
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Then again, not much different.
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Looks to me like puritan pilgrim course you have chosen.
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The extreme in polarized bipartisanly was Jamaica in the late 1970's/early 1980's. The country was virtually ungovernable. You had gangs allied with each party which killed each other every day. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/The-bloody-general-election-that-changed-Jamaica …
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state religion: Maoism, Leninism with icons everywhere is a modern phenom. but still only extremists (mostly right-wing) are clamoring for it
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Alea iacta est
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