The concept of politics eludes me.

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While I am not diagnosed, and probably to good to be, there are things that escape my understanding.
Does anybody else here has trouble understanding the sense of politics?
I mean, people are good friends in teenage years, or later, and suddenly they take up political teams, and adopt their views - that are, basically, an illusion constructed by politic PR people - and treat it more seriously than the things that connected them earlier. Why teaming up to something that artificial is more important that things that we really have in common? It's like they can't prioritize correctly, or find out what's really important in life.
And they argue over really meaningless stuff - it's not like half of the political parties propositions will be ever in effect, these are mostly talk, and will end up in compromises of some sort.

Let me debunk this real quick...

Clinton and Bush are at the opposite sides of the partisan system in American politics, but yet when they both stopped being presidents, they became friends.

Politics is superficial, it is all a game for the corrupt to exert their manipulation over everyone.

This only becomes a problem if you have people who;
A) Treat politics like religion; and
B) Can't respect other peoples opinions
I have friends who are liberals, and we can discuss politics because we can say " In my opinion....". And there are people who I don't talk politics with because they are so bigoted that they make me sick. And I include conservatives and liberals in the bigoted group.

@glebel, that one. It is a civilised way to solve the issues. I see perfectly rational people going bonkers over political teams like football fans, and tearing the precious ties they have with other people. Friendship is something immensely precious, and hard to acquire, especially for social flunkies. Politics is sort of superficial.

Actually that opposing politicians are colleagues is a healthy situation, and it's ok that they become friends after they retire. We don't expect chess players or ski jumpers to mortally hate each other, and this is it - a competition. One politician I know doesn't even care about the power or the money - while it's something to think of, competition is as enticing to him, as reading my books, or playing KOTOR to me. The situation when the opposing politician is an enemy to their competitor is a really ugly one, and doesn't sit well with democracy.

What I don't get - in my heart, because in my head I sometimes do - that people NOT being politicians treat this as more important than, you know, really important stuff. And I wonder if somebody has as hard time as me to wrap their mind around it.