Culture wars
A pox of both sides of the culture wars.
The desire to win this game is driven by inherent personal insecurity, which leads to a desire to be validated by being part of a majority.
The best way to achieve a majority is to engage in efforts to maximise the government funding to causes aligned, and to actively cut the grass of the efforts of the unaligned.
It would be cheaper and easier if we just all (via the govt) paid for psychology sessions for the lot of them…so that they can seek their validation internally. However both sides of the culture wars would gang up to defeat that one.
