Politics

Could you define "major portion"?

as long as certain other groups of people have it worse than they do

Honestly, a lot of this is human nature. Finishing second last means you weren't last, which means you're one step closer to winning, whatever that means.

When you add "certain," I honestly think that group isn't as big as you make it out to be. Most people don't care who is worse off than them, just that they're not dead last by whatever metric they're interested in.

willing to sacrifice to make the entire nation’s population better off

I don't think that's really true, could you be a bit less vague?

It sounds likes you're strongly implying partisan politics here, but the only way this makes sense is if I take a very slanted view of politics (i.e. a very pro-Democrat), in which case:

1. Republicans - doesn't match any of the Republicans I know personally, and I'm in a very red state, so that's basically all of my neighbors and almost half my work associates (I work in a liberal part of the state, and my office skews young)
2. Democrats - matches many of the people I know personally, most of whom aren't Democrats due to the state I'm in (I don't associate w/ psychopaths)
3. independents/third parties - most independents/third parties are more opinionated than the Republicans/Democrats I know, who largely just follow the pack

He had visited the military Behavioral Health program multiple times in recent months and was diagnosed with depression last year.

The dude in the article was suffering from depression, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some PTSD or something in the mix as well.

Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.

I'm guessing he was expecting Trump to lose (ahem, have the election stolen), and when that didn't happen, he made up some other reason to use violence to accomplish what he thought needed to happen. I'm guessing he was also involved in some unhealthy social media circles as well. This screams mental illness, because there's absolutely no reason a rational person would expect Biden to attempt something like Jan 6. He didn't even run for re-election, and Harris conceded the election well before the votes were counted. There are zero reasons a rational person would say any of this.

This isn't a "Republicans bad" thing, this is someone suffering from at least one mental illness, with a history of being involved in violent encounters (green beret). When you mix mental illness and military training, this is exactly what you get, and I'm surprised it wasn't worse.