My opinion...The real goal of the people with the (perceived) power, is to always have any situation be a mob atmosphere, always splitting everything into controllable 'teams'.

In this way, they always can steer, or suggest any outcome, and all people feel as though they've participated, contributed, and helped their team; 'they gave it their all'.

Even the losers can go off to lick their wounds with their fellows in arms. Not many are happy in this system, but are at least 'content', in that at least consciously they can tell themselves 'they did something'.

We're told in the modern day world that it's all about being part of the team, and there's no "I" in the word... and all the crap sandwich saying that encompass it. I think it's a giant demoralizer to the idea of the 'self'. A single man, or woman, or 'it' can make great change, and they don't need any team to do it. Internal fortitude, yes, but not too many have it.