https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DytBlcScGNkI find this video quite interesting from Lindybeige, it's titled 'why do we go to war', however there is a lot of interesting stuff at the end about what goes into making a country, state, tribe stick together.
Anyway. For me I have issues with both sides of the spectrum. I'm nominally on the left, but I despise some elements of the left. As with the right.
However, I gotta say, on the way out Trump crossed a red line. He spurred on an assault on the democratic process to remove him. I always hated the guy but I didn't accept he was as dangerous as many people were saying. I was wrong in this, he's authoritarian and I don't believe the situation in the US has been as perilous as this handover for a long time.
I see very few people who are supportive of Trump acknowledging this, many choose to believe the election was stolen instead and thus all this anti democratic action is completely justified, yet lawsuit after lawsuit fails miserably, they were always going to because simply- it wasn't stolen. It was obvious to anybody who has had any exposure to Trump at all that he would lie and claim the election was stolen had he lost. There is no timeline where Trump lost and graciously accepted defeat, none. So why believe so uncritically that he is telling the truth? Why is it so hard to believe that this election was just as fair as the last one, the one before that, and before that etc?
I also see this equivocating about Biden/all democrats whatever. Politicians are not all evil and completely corrupt (certainly not all one side and the other side are angels). Yes, there are surely many self serving people in politics (as with many other areas), maybe they even achieve good things despite that- isn't that the purpose of institutions and structures of law etc? To get good outcomes with imperfect people?
I can't understand people hitting Biden etc as a liar and more or less giving a free pass to Trump. If you care about lying at all, Trump should be your least favourite person in the world. Politicians lie, but Trump lies perhaps more than any other person in public life. He lies so much that any concept of accountability for what he says has completely gone. At least when regular politicians lie there is a penalty if they are caught out.
Well, that's my rant over.