

a giant distraction.
What else is going on right now? ICE murder? Nonono… ramping up to declare some kind of emergency to derail the mid-terms somehow. Need to invent a bunch of chaos to cause a panic in the MAGA base.
Do you guys remember Jeffrey Epstein?




I care about it a great deal.
But if you want a hypothesis for your question…
I think its because, as primates, we feel a desire to punish our enemies. It an emotional impulse, and therefore gets a power buff in its influence over our beliefs compared to being reasonable and fostering understanding. The empathetic leader is perceived to lack in their capabilities for delivering punishment.
Control is why we (the society) are discouraged from developing the skills to be reasonable in the first place.