I saw this article and thought it’s description of fish schooling is pretty apt for today’s politics. Dem schools and Repub schools react randomly to the constant barrage of news and commentary, copy the behaviors of the other “fish” we see, and appear to be moving as a unified mass when in fact it’s near chaos that’s the driving force. https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2020-03-fish-school-randomly-group.amp
