Politics is not important. Life is important. Politics is just a supposedly necessary evil. It is not an end. It is just something that is in the way and that we stumble upon. But it pervades everything.
The ideological polarization that some denounce is a farce: it is the Left that has drifted to the extreme, and the Right, as historically befits it, limits itself to reaction. The omnipresence of politics has reached such an extreme that in some dating apps, you can read in the profile “I only date antifas” or “I do not tolerate fascists;” it is worth remembering that, for the Left, a fascist is anyone who does not say amen — with apologies to secularists — to all the madness of postmodern progressivism. (READ MORE: American Campuses Threaten Students and the Nation)
Polarization also alludes to two distancing extremes, although the word radicalization better defines the ideological displacement of one of…
