For too long, politics has been about labels. You identify as this or that and then people presume that you think this or that because of the party political allegiances. In real life, people who join a certain political party do so because of the said presumptions only to realize later on that their choices have been made out of misconceptions.
In every political organisation there are different trends and schools of thought whether you are dealing with so called mainstream political parties, minor political parties or fringe political parties.Individuals cannot agree on everything and from time to time they will be leaning in opposite directions on certain issues.
Dissent does't arise out of nowhere. Differences of opinion always exist in all political organisations and when people start to focus on existing differences of opinion instead of focusing on what they agree on we talk about political crisis. Keeping everybody together is a balancing act. If there is a strong leader perceived as being in a winning position, people tend to put aside their differences because it pays to be on the winning side, but as soon as the leader is perceived as weak such a time is seen as an opportunity to get somebody interests that were put aside for the sake of unity.
You can look at a group of people as a whole or you can look at a group of people as individuals. If you look at a group of people as whole you tend to overgeneralize. If you look at a group of people as individuals you discover what really makes them tick. Even when people publicly express that they are in agreement there are personal preferences - likes and dislikes - you need to deal with and personal preferences do matter at the time of assigning roles within any organisation. Two people, members of the same organisation, presumably because they share what they perceive to be the views and aims of the organisation not necessarily have a good personal rapport.
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