Comment by atoav

Please explain how "inevitable decline" follows from my view, cause I can't see it. If by "inevitable decline" you mean I think tribalized conflicts are a waste of human potential that are bad, I take it, but I do not think it inevitably leads to decline.

It just does do so now, demonstrably. And again, within a democracy voting people out is your agency and that is Karl Popper and not Oswald Sprengler. You may think you vote people into office, but those can promise everything and do the opposite. So our true power is voting people out of office without pitchforks and torches.

So what happens when a politicians makes you believe waving their party-political-flag is more important than keeping them acountable is that they fuck you over in more brazen ways more often, but you can't ditch them because then the other team would "win".

Throw away the party flag and you stopped decline, thus it is not inevitable.