CMV: Aligning to either political party is no different than being a sports fan.
There’s a video that explains the psychology behind being a sports fan.
https://youtu.be/O2Fb-SJ9v0M
TLDW: Humans are tribal, being part of a group means survival. Sports teams today are basically modern tribes with merch and face paint.
Fans always defend their team’s bad calls while trashing the other team’s mistakes. They never admit fault on their own side. As someone who doesn’t watch sports, it looks extremely hypocritical to watch these fans.
That’s how I feel about modern politics. We should treat each political issue independently instead of defaulting to left vs right, liberal vs conservative, my side vs your side.
Take the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. I don’t fully support or hate ICE as an institution, but looking at the incident objectively, it was a terrible judgement by ICE and was a clear murder. He needs to be prosecuted. No matter which angles or narrative the conservatives try to paint, you can’t defend this guy, unless he’s on your ‘team’. 
Then there’s the Minnesota day care story. A video by a YouTuber alleged fraud at Somali run day care centers, but the left party are defending the daycare and are trying to pry into the YouTuber, and not the actual fraud it
Why do some people feel completely indifferent toward sports while others build their entire identity around it? In this video, we explore …
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