Thank you for the rep, though you disagree with my paralel, which was more about US politics than Europe, though I suspect their is like some applicability there as well. The Europeans seem to have kept their corporate jins in the bottle, but the partisanship is still thick.
In the US, we have seen the rise of people who specialize in being provocative and rude to the opposite in debate to the point the opponent walks away in anger and the provocateur and his allies celebrate it as a victory and it gets put on UTube.
We no longer see ourselves as one nation in practical terms, but of two armed camps with their own sources of authoritative information, world views, interpretations of history, etc.
This nation is dangerously close to rebellion and civil war, IMO.