It's also because many of us are already above the fray. I'm having an ongoing discussion with my cousin about politics and for him it always comes back to, 'But Republicans did this...' And my answer is always, 'yeah, and...?' The red vs blue paradigm is so deeply ingrained in folks but once you're out of that psyOp, and can think more freely...
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The wife reserves some amount of disgust for the far-left rage bait, like throwing the word "coup" around when the executive branch is shutting down a dept that the executive branch spun up.
But she still pulls me into discussions about how "scary" this all is. It's like people don't care that they're getting screwed as long as some newsNPC isn't trying to make them piss their knickers.