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# Video: "We're In A Doom Loop of Toxic Politics"
- URL: https://ivn.us/video-were-in-a-doom-loop-of-toxic-politics/
- Published: 2020-10-02T14:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T20:08:25.000Z
- Author: Shawn Griffiths
- Tags: Campaigns

Unite America recently released a new video titled "How America's two-party doom loop is driving division," based on the doom loop theory of political reform scholar Lee Drutman. The two-party doom loop refers to the vicious cycle of tit-for-tat politics escalated by the Republican and Democratic Parties for the sole purpose of government control.

The only thing that matters to the two parties is winning, and this [zero-sum, us-vs-them mentality](https://ivn.us/2018/10/12/vote-us-else-doom-time-reel-hyperbole) has degraded the nation's politics to such alarming extremes that the consequences of it have turned violent. The contest between the Republican and Democratic Parties looks more like a battle of "good vs evil," where both sides see themselves on the side of right, and the other side is "immoral" and "un-American."

Unite America's video gives people a closer look at how the US political system, which can no longer be viewed as a full democracy, got to such a volatile state. Check out the video above and let us know what you think in the comment section.