If half as many people, were half as enthusiastic about their own self-interest via politics, as they are about football...we would never have gotten into this gawdawful quagmire.
When I lived in Jamaica decades ago, there were two labor unions that lined up with the two political parties. Faction fighting reminded me way back then of the intensity that Americans had for choosing teams/leagues in baseball - back then baseball was the national sport where everyone had a favorite.
I felt very smug that we Americans used our loyalty for a sport rather than civic disrest.
I don’t know what’s going on in Jamaica these days, but our political parties have turned into the seriously opposing divisions that Jamaicans knew back then. It is so unhealthy. After an election there, the construction workers, for example, and the people in ‘government’ housing, expected the working men and the householders to be removed instantly in favor of the new party members. I mean protests at the building sites the day after the results were in!