Political Memes

I agree, even the notion that the left is more "intellectual" is surface-level only, you can just as easily be someone who thinks but uses those thoughts to validate feelings over shared reality. We do a very bad job broadly of understanding or recognizing our own cognitive biases and dissonances, and the left is just as stupid as the right about a great many things. This isn't to take the position of the enlightened centrist, but instead the need to remind people that this isn't WWE, and we're not actually choosing sides, we're trying to uphold values and principles that others happen to share. We want good outcomes for everyone, not specific outcomes for specific people.

Even if we solved all our issues tomorrow and removed the republican leadership from politics entirely, we would still have to share a country with them the next day, and how rapidly would we become the thing we hate as we work to punish them or ignore them until they reach a breaking point? We are doomed to repeat history over and over because we cannot separate ourselves from our survival instincts and feelings, and we have fantastic brains that will spin narratives to justify our feelings about anything, from the most mundane decisions about lunch, to genocide.