Speaking of the USA, as great as this country is and its essence of freedom that we all love and cherish, there is some truth with how twisted values are in mainstream USA.
Lol Ant & Nilgy and all other fellas, heads up:
DISLAIMER> Super racy language but this is a prime example of how twisted values can get that unfortunately come with the risks of a free society.
I'm doing what I can to help people come together on basic "normie" issues upstream, so we get better politics downstream in say 10, 20 years etc...
The problem is people kind of let wedges come between them and then everything gets tribal from the grievances that build up ....and everyone wants to point fingers in the turbulence....when really the fixing is done at ground level and as early. You need to sap politicians of as much oxygen as possible (not one side you prefer, but BOTH sides cohesively).....what is the govt/politician scope, this has to be fixed and compartmentalised as far as possible by society. That's what made the US great for so long was it had good balance here for as long as it did, now the statism (and thus way media harnesses the culture flashpoints etc to escalate and feed into those things even more for a quick buck) is way out of control....the US (principles and collective memory) is not made for heavy statism....thats why we're feeling the heat from the over-wrought politics now. Its a federal blanketing thats getting to be too much....DC should be minimal and let the states figure out what states need to figure out as states are diverse from each other. Then people can vote with their feet over time and there is feedback and competitive process rather than "all in" stuff for DC. Past things like national defence, federal administration, federal courts, national standards.....I don't see any other role to be given to DC....let each state handle that stuff.....you get more responsive/grounded politicians the closer they are to you locally...and less media limelight they get (in DC inevitably, the whole thing turns into a celebrity cult circus for politician drama).
Here in Canada, the politicians that do provincial and local stuff are much higher caliber in end in their approachibility and "grounding" compared to ones we send to Ottawa, whatever their party (liberal or conservative)....same reason in play. Like I don't care too much about the party at the local level, basically I check their career and objective priorities they have listed etc, their track record if incumbent and so on.
Federal overreach (and thus federal govt role) needs to be understood and alloted well, otherwise inevitably you get too much of someone too far away setting too much for you where you live....bypassing what you had locally before. A problem with a country so vast (I mean Europe has growing problem with the EU bureaucracy for same reason).
This will take time to work out this decade in US, there was too much laissez faire regarding this (US domestic politics to be kept at state level at most) from the 1990s "unipolar" bonhomie that fed too much into DC ego and then sudden jarring of this with 9/11, the response and further growth of DC (and its ease to have debt financing and kick the can unlike what can be done at state level)....and now every kind of normie is increasingly at odds with the new wedge issues DC needs as floorboards, to make their lives easier at cost of making everyone else more miserable with this bullhorning and social erosion to try make easy mobs for federal politicians.
Anyway they overcalculated on things and there will be pushback from US normie population.
I think people get they need to fix things far earlier before it gets to politics, esp at DC level where everything reductively becomes A vs B tribalism nowadays (as thats easier for politicians to dramatize when they are removed from their constituencies and listen only to those that can screech and cry-bully the loudest, whatever fringe they tend to be on of left and right) rather than having politicians actually do the job they are there for....regarding the more "centrist" (quieter) bulk of the population.
