content: But it's exactly that "sports team" mentality that is so dangerous. When politics turns into sports and everybody has a "team" it is no longer about finding the best solution to a problem, but becomes about team loyalty and beating the other team. Human beings stop being individuals capable of rational thought and start acting like worker ants that will mindlessly fight to the death to defend their team. There is a very good reason this kind of behavior is discouraged in Europe. It's not because they're a bunch of multi-culti hippies, it's because their continent has been ravaged by the consequences of this kind if thinking over and over. They get how seductive it can be, but how lethal it really is.