"Thing A", the incompatibility of differing viewpoints
It disturbs me that people ignore serious side-effects of leadership on the presumption that they are getting what they want. People turn a blind eye to one or more drastic things because they believe they're getting what they want on one or two other issues. This is partisan politics, I guess. We need to burn this whole shitshow down. I know people like to feel a part of something, a member of a team, accepted on some level. Because of this, people allow their opinions to be informed, if not formed, by the collective opinion of the group. Because of this, and because of the wide variance of the two invisible ends of the sociopolitical spectrum, people get buried in a belief system that they may not even understand or recognize. All they know is what they've been raised to believe, and that others are the enemy. The first thing we learn about politics is that we oppose each other. It's important to recognize that we disagree, but it's also important to learn how to do