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Originally Posted by Locke
Realistically Politics should be more like Professional Sports.
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I agree with a lot of what you said except for this.
This the last thing politics should be.
People will cheer for a team, year in and year out, regardless of whether they suck or not. They see a couple guys on the team changed between seasons and think “That’s it, we’re good now.”
We don’t need team loyalty, regardless of who is on your team. We saw it with the Flames. Bertuzzi joined the team and people cheered for him, after we all hated him so much and his dirty playing. “Oh, he’s changed, he’s a Flame now. He got that driving another man’s skull into the ice out of his system, so it’s ok to cheer for him now.”
People don’t switch favourite teams very often. If we want politics to be like pro-sports, sports fans should be cheering for whatever team is showing the most skill and effort on any given night. They should be cheering for the team that supports their fans and community the most.
A lot of people pick their political party like they pick their sports teams. My Dad liked them so I do too. I was born in the city that cheers for them. They’ve won a lot so I like them. Doesn’t matter that they cheated to win (Patriots, Astros).
Sports fandom is the least rational thing we want politics to be like.