If you see two sides playing the same game, then they are probably not two sides. Divide-and-conquer strategies often involve polarizing people by provoking emotional reactions to hotbutton issues.
Avoid framing issues in terms of false dichotomies.
People need education to understand current issues.
So alternative education and media systems need to be devised.
Which means needing to create parallel economies.
Probably because none of that is easy. It can fail. And people will complain. So people gamble that if they instead bide their time, circumstances might become less risky. But that hasn’t worked out very well.
