You’re focusing your attention on political theatre, which is precisely that — theatre. I’ve no problem with people wasting their lifetime in such a manor, it’s how those people encourage others to waste their lifetimes on the same nonsense in-turn that I find disconcerting. In twenty years, how would it feel to read this article back to yourself? I’ll tell you, it’ll feel like how it does when someone sees an old photo of themselves in awful clothes, clothes which, at the time, they thought were great.