Uni-Division
There has been an ongoing growth of political polarisation in much of the world in recent times. However by much of the political and media class this is often simply dismissed as an unfortunate but inevitable phenomenon. First of all there is an attempt here to equate both poles of the political spectrum, I suspect in hopes of maintaining the existing liberal state of affairs. No doubt both poles feel politically disillusioned, poorer, more insecure, and fearful of the future, united in their experience, however they are divided in their solutions. Many people often preach about returning to the centre and becoming less polarised, entirely ignoring the material conditions that led to this political climate in the first place; as if it wasn't this reluctance to leaving the status-quo behind that got us here. This wilful ignorance resembles an old man trying to cure his lung cancer by smoking cigarettes, a moments thought will quickly assure this is not going to help; but in-fact worsen the disease. However the rapidly growing radicalisation we see is not a disease, but a symptom of our failing socio-economic system.
All across ideological divides a class-based analysis can highlight the shared material conditions that can unite us. The wealth of the 63 richest individuals in the UK is more than the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of the UK. That is 63 people compared to 34,150,000, 0.00009% compared to 50%. Not only is this data mathematically absurd, but also it is the reason for many of the hardships we face currently and by extension the growing polarisation. There is no way we can compete against their resistance to change unless we acknowledge our shared interests. Throughout this project I explored the often looked shared understandings from both poles of the political spectrum; presenting an economic analysis to encourage unity over division. The website is open to public at https://uni-division.netlify.app
