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https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/america-politics-divided-polarization-data

The article briefly mentions it: The new tendency of local governments, corporate board rooms, sports media, and other institutions that used to be largely apolitical now towing a radical/fringe line magnifies the situation

You might be interested in Rod Henderson's work about luxury beliefs. As I get older I just noticed there's fewer and fewer places where these sort of luxury beliefs aren't in the mix.

@crenca - i'm a little bit optimistic that many of those 'power brokers' are starting to realize that they've mis-read the room by paying a bit too much attention to loud minority factions on both political extremes.

I hold no optimism, just a vague hope that history will surprise us with somehing good.

I’m confused, they say political activism is invading “everything”, like football. Is this the same football that has massive odes to the American military at every game? How is that apolitical?

I guess if you think a military wouldn't exist apart from partisan politics. My hunch is, any nation that wants to continue existing would have some sort of military.

The army would exist even without partisan politics, but choosing to loudly and gratuitously venerate the military every game is not an apolitical choice.