If you take a randomized group of people and give them all oxycodone, a certain percentage will become addicted. Go back 5 years later and out of that small group, some will be dead, some will be in jail, some will have kicked, and some will still be doing all of the things that addicts do to keep their pain/reward cycle going.
Self righteous anger and escalating violence are similarly addictive. Most of the people who watch nothing but FOX and its imitators are into this cycle of dopamine reward for feeling angry - and if you want to get the same kick as you did at the start, you always have to increase the dosage. Every time I see excerpts of Tucker or Sean I recognize this simple operant conditioning at work. A small percentage of these devoted watchers will move on to bigger and bigger doses - it is in their nature.
It’s all about the dopamine and the constant barrage of victimhood and righteous anger being spoon fed to millions of people daily in this country. Logic, facts and rational thought have absolutely no sway in this world. I see very little on the horizon that is going to dent this enterprise - after all, a lot of this anger has been passed down from generation to generation - that is why we are still enmeshed in the politics of the Civil War. Our minds are the victims of our brains.