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   > Yes, anything taken to extremes does harm. If you benefit one group   
   > another suffers. You'd think by now we could strive for treating   
   > everyone fairly, with penalties for not doing that, rather than   
   > trying to swing things 100% to greatly benefit a different group   
   > while harming someone else..   
      
   This exactly.  US politics, for at least 15+ years now, has been more about   
   gaining power and making "the other side" suffer or, at least, very   
   unhappy, than it is about actually doing what is right for the country as a   
   whole.   
      
   Politicians who are sensible get weeded out early in favor of the more   
   polarizing ones.   
      
   If I were looking for a conspiracy, I would be looking at who benefits from   
   this.  China, Russia, the online press, and social media are all good   
   starts but I suspect there are others who benefit that are not so evident.   
      
      
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