What Is The Actual Purpose Of Politics?

And how far away have we gotten from said purpose?

Let’s start with this article, which in turn references this article.

The author of that second article then says this, as quoted in the first article:

“As people affectively polarize, they appear to blow out-group threats out of proportion, exaggerating the out-group’s dislike and disgust for their own group, and getting ready to defend their in-group, s…