I mean, there definitely is a forced team sports opposition made by each side of the political spectrum, but this kumbaya shit glosses over a lot of policy differences too. The real lesson that needs to be pushed through is that the political left is often times far more radical than they campaign on while never being the radicalism most of their voters want. The message for the right is that the right as far more spineless and "liberal" than they say on the campaign trail. At this moment the right and the left are in agreement at this moment on the fact that the financial institutions serve a political/elite class. This is a crossing point that should be used to exchange other ideas. Don't just leave it at the momentary economics, because once this ends, the left will go back to deplatforming the right and trying to hike taxes and a host of other shitty policies and the right will go back to pretending to oppose those things but doing so ineffectively. When the Wall Street folks try and deplatform Robinhood traders and shut down discord channels, use that are an opener to talk to the left about the dangers of tech monopolies and authoritarian censorship (which they've been tacitly promoting for 4 years). When they all have to pay taxes on their earnings, red pill them about how bullshit the capital gains taxes are and instead of letting them think another tax hike will fix it, make them realize the rich are never affected by changes in the tax code because they've got tax avoidance down pat and they negotiate all their own loopholes with their friends in Congress. Tax hikes only ever hurt the middle class and never eat the rich like the left thinks they will. There are far better lessons to teach the other side than this kumbaya about controlled opposition. We won't always agree, but don't let the only lesson they learn be the one about political false promises and controlled opposition. Get into the policy details and make conservatives out of them.
I mean, there definitely is a forced team sports opposition made by each side of the political spectrum, but this kumbaya shit glosses over a lot of policy differences too. The real lesson that needs to be pushed through is that the political left is often times far more radical than they campaign on while never being the radicalism most of their voters want. The message for the right is that the right as far more spineless and "liberal" than they say on the campaign trail. At this moment the right and the left are in agreement at this moment on the fact that the financial institutions serve a political/elite class. This is a crossing point that should be used to exchange other ideas. Don't just leave it at the momentary economics, because once this ends, the left will go back to deplatforming the right and trying to hike taxes and a host of other shitty policies and the right will go back to pretending to oppose those things but doing so ineffectively. When the Wall Street folks try and deplatform Robinhood traders and shut down discord channels, use that are an opener to talk to the left about the dangers of tech monopolies and authoritarian censorship (which they've been tacitly promoting for 4 years). When they all have to pay taxes on their earnings, red pill them about how bullshit the capital gains taxes are and instead of letting them think another tax hike will fix it, make them realize the rich are never affected by changes in the tax code because they've got tax avoidance down pat and they negotiate all their own loopholes with their friends in Congress. Tax hikes only ever hurt the middle class and never eat the rich like the left thinks they will. There are far better lessons to teach the other side than this kumbaya about controlled opposition. We won't always agree, but don't let the only lesson they learn be the one about political false promises and controlled opposition. Get into the policy details and make conservatives out of them.