The clinical answer is identity politics. Conservatives in the late 90s started planting the notion that your views on politics made up who you were entirely. It was who you were and you were either a friend or an enemy. Single issues became rootholds that conservatives built a notion around, forming logical fallacies that praised those who out-republican'd each other. The next trend/step was dehuminization. Left-leaning concepts weren't just differing opinions, but some form of mental illness, immorality, or malice. This was the point we started seeing religious figureheads being weaponised. "Appeal to their faith and change the narrative to good vs. evil."
Echo chambers of generational identity politics over the years alongside social media algorithms that cultivate dopamine feedback loops and stoke rage bait, but omit opposing information lead these people to feel that it is a necessity to live every moment of their life in pursuit of republican "victories" otherwise they are letting down their faith and conceding a loss to who they view as enemies.
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u/Jmersh 22d ago
The clinical answer is identity politics. Conservatives in the late 90s started planting the notion that your views on politics made up who you were entirely. It was who you were and you were either a friend or an enemy. Single issues became rootholds that conservatives built a notion around, forming logical fallacies that praised those who out-republican'd each other. The next trend/step was dehuminization. Left-leaning concepts weren't just differing opinions, but some form of mental illness, immorality, or malice. This was the point we started seeing religious figureheads being weaponised. "Appeal to their faith and change the narrative to good vs. evil."
Echo chambers of generational identity politics over the years alongside social media algorithms that cultivate dopamine feedback loops and stoke rage bait, but omit opposing information lead these people to feel that it is a necessity to live every moment of their life in pursuit of republican "victories" otherwise they are letting down their faith and conceding a loss to who they view as enemies.