The other side is made up of and cares about the wellbeing of people they don’t like (people of color, lgbtqia, traditionally oppressed people, disabled people, etc.)

That’s it: extinction burst because winning because of attributes you inherited wasn’t working.

Also, real easy to say “shit sucks”. Really hard to actually make things that don’t suck.

That, plus a healthy dose of anti-intellectualism, is a ratchet to hell.