>>25Consider the following:
The right starts calling the left "NPCs"
So the left starts calling the right "NPCs" in response.
Instead consider that the vast majority of humanity is "NPC" and by "NPC" we mean that they are basically unthinking pleasure-seekers that base their opinions on what their perceived moral authority source tells them. This perceived authority source may be; their friends, the media, their celebrities, their teachers, their religion or religious leaders, or another source.
That does not make these people useless, however. We need them, as many of them as possible, as voters, and if needed, as fighters.
Once one of these people is pulled into a political direction, they tend to stay the course, so we are in a constant memetic war to recruit as many of them as possible. If we don't, the other side will.