Honestly, it was a combination of factors - folks took things personally instead of taking a moment to chill out and remember 'it's just a game'. Others took things too far, and used politics to beat folks over the head.
It also was a very kludged-together setup. I sometimes wonder how things would have fared if more time/effort had been spent on the underlying structure of politics, instead of keeping things fairly loose, as was done.
And even in the real world, dude, people tend to get *really* emotional about politics. I speak from the position of one who would like election day to get here already, or else I'm going to strangle the far-left democrats/far-right republicans who sit next to me at work and argue incessantly about their respective candidate. :)
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Re: The Consequences of Poltics
Date: 2004-08-31 02:30 pm (UTC)It also was a very kludged-together setup. I sometimes wonder how things would have fared if more time/effort had been spent on the underlying structure of politics, instead of keeping things fairly loose, as was done.
And even in the real world, dude, people tend to get *really* emotional about politics. I speak from the position of one who would like election day to get here already, or else I'm going to strangle the far-left democrats/far-right republicans who sit next to me at work and argue incessantly about their respective candidate. :)