Politics is about power.
It’s just the way it is.
The people in power saw that they were slipping and they went to just about the oldest tactic there is: High-Low against the Middle.
Aristotle observed the phenomenon.
https://x.com/cartographer_s/status/1636554711582007297
Yes, it is.
Still, I have no clue at all why some people seem to enjoy to inflict suffering and pain on others, as our power elites do. Furthermore, on people who have never wronged them personally.
I think they are just like that. It’s a fallen world.