The left vs right theatre is really just two sides of the same coin. By now every western democracy is being dragged along the same path with different stages of progression.

1. Move domestic production and jobs to lesser developed countries to increase profits.

2. Open the gates for mass immigration under the guise of openness and empathy to import wage slaves for the service sector and use every media channel to ostracize anyone who utters the slightest doubt about this policy.

3. Aggressively push DEI and gender ideology to alienate the social-democratic left from the academic left and drown out any other popular left topics like worker's rights or class warfare.

4. Amplify polarization on social media by creating as many conflicts as possible (left vs right, old vs young, men vs women, natives vs immigrants, ...).

5. Promote a right-wing populist party and trick enough people into voting for it.

6. Move the tax burden from the rich to the middle and lower class and remove regulations and restrictions on companies while ignoring all the other problems.

7. Establish surveillance and authoritarian rule under the guise of safety.

Everyone in this so-called culture war is being played, so maybe it's time to stop being smug about being smarter than the other side and start contemplating if there is any common idea that we can agree on that allows us to go forward.