With the whole politics thing, it's getting weaponized to fool increasingly more intelligent people. I've never seen more people (including the smart ones) in my life who go into emotional tirades over how liberals/conservatives are bad and how they're going to ghost their friends and family if they're not on the same "side".

Agreed. Intelligence requires self-awareness and situational/observational awareness, and way too many so-called "intellectuals" on both sides (Bill Maher, Ben Shapiro, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, etc.) [easily get manipulated by politics without realizing the entire tribalist game is "Divide and Conquer." Thus, no awareness they're being used and conned, thus, they're hapless morons playing right into the game. Keep in mind, I hate the woke shit too, but I'm aware that they're just using it to troll the "smart" people, control the stupid people, and distract the useful people, so they can get away with far worse shit in the background (like Epstein'ing the Boeing whistleblower, just this past week, which nobody is even talking about.)

I've never met an intelligent person who was a staunch Republican/Conservative/Democrat/Liberal before, even though some people like to say the most intelligent people are the most politically biased. Politics truly are for stupid people, which you know, is like 95% of humanity.