The inherent politics in group interaction.

In my cerebral view, politics are so polarizing because we, as individuals, are constantly surrounded by them whether in families, school cliques, educational organizations, research institutes, or the workplace (which should be placed in focus, purpose, and integrity but is often placed in politics). While politics are complex, when one understands their complication anything (including, but not limited to, politics) becomes simple. To simplify, when there is more than one person in a group, the art of politics will persist throughout that relationship and/or endeavor. This will occur no matter the well-intentioned individuals involved as I believe people are naturally not just good but have good intentions. Survival, on some level, will always kick in at some point as a mechanism to either protect or win favor in the situation monetarily, socially, or mentally. This does not make any particular individual bad in any way based on that process. What makes politics end up in a negative space are the specific persons that use politics to not only forward their own agendas (which is not always bad) but directly hurt people by indirectly being ignorant. The evil of ignorance knows no bounds. Ignorant people often have no clue of the level of destruction they are imposing onto others in their wake because — simply put — it doesn’t affect them. There is often a divide in politics in general (and…