“<Democrats/Republicans> want to destroy the country” is ridiculously unlikely just from first principles.
Take a mental step out from your own country and look at people from other democracies, where the divisive issues are different, and you’ll find in all of them people who believe that the rival big tent party is malevolent.
Partisan ideoculture is a waste product of democracy—parties are incentivized to encourage in people a vague hatred of the opposite party instead of having them focus on concrete policies or issues. Getting ensnared by it is shameful.
“<Democrats/Republicans> want to destroy the country” is ridiculously unlikely just from first principles.
Take a mental step out from your own country and look at people from other democracies, where the divisive issues are different, and you’ll find in all of them people who believe that the rival big tent party is malevolent.
Partisan ideoculture is a waste product of democracy—parties are incentivized to encourage in people a vague hatred of the opposite party instead of having them focus on concrete policies or issues. Getting ensnared by it is shameful.