20 November

Most public debates are completely fake, they're not about the issue in any way. They're about the status of the competing teams. Here's a good example, in the US the two main parties (Democrat and Republican) have completely swapped their regional and racial strongholds, as well as their entire ideologies, in the course of their history. All that matters is victory to the team. Public issues are just fuel for the team sports, against other teams, and parties happily shift to fundamentally different beliefs and principles, if it wins them the status game (elections).