Yes!
I honestly hate terms like 'right', 'left', 'conservatives' and 'liberals' because we are actually multi-faceted and can hold lots of different beliefs, thoughts and ideals that don't fit neatly into just one of those boxes... but people crave community and sometimes mistake cliques/cults for community.
Community is about belonging rather than fitting in and working towards a mission or goal, whereas cliques are about gate-keeping and establishing identity on who isn't part of the group - which sometimes encourages violence towards those not in the group.
If there is a true division, it's really the 0.1% versus the rest of us, but they spend absolutely incredible resources keeping us fighting and divided.
For sure. There is a lot of this going on across many aspects of life. Like lonely people mistaking sex for intimacy, or flavour for nutrition. I reckon a lot of our world is made of inadequate substitutes.
Yet, in the US at least, they keep getting voted into power as representative of the people. Inadequate substitutes.