Revenge Politics

n: a practice by which one political faction’s capricious or otherwise questionable policies and actions are fueled by or rationalized by an opposing faction’s previous transgressions of the same order, alternatingly favoring one class or segment of the population above the other, creating a vicious, compounding cycle of unprincipled government to the detriment of itself and its people, in the end only truly benefiting the politicians.

“The revenge politics of Red vs. Blue create quite an emotional spectacle that very nearly distracts from the cost of the ticket.”