Thoughts on oligarchy vii

The one political divide

Are you already an anarchist?

I suggested last time that what we need to do going forward is redirect politics, making it an exercise in interrogating and exposing the factual story of the system. This is a positive politics that has no use for the prevailing politics of impotent identity on both apparent teams. If you know my positive politics of “consistent Manchesterism,” then you know that what I’m not doing here is criticizing liberalism on substantive grounds. As we’ve discussed, almost all ordinary people, irrespective of their professed political opinions, already practice some broadly liberal and pluralistic politics in their day-to-day lives, in that they are more than willing to treat others with basic decency and respect, on account of the fact that they’re dealing with another human being.