If the pain is not felt or it doesn't hurt you...it can never change you. Being susceptible to pain is a blessing.
Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.
Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.
I do not know how it all started, but I would certainly play my part in how it all ends.
In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.