The most important thing that I have learned in #politics over the past ~10 years is that playing negative-sum games makes you weaker and should be avoided except as an absolute last resort.

Any kind of win-win game you can start is a great idea.

Some concrete examples:

- the disputed 2020 US election was a negative sum game that the US right unwisely got itself into. As we can see, it wasn't a "last resort" situation; Biden is president and the sky has not fallen.

- The attitude to women on the political right has been too negative sum until very recently. I think the right is gradually learning that traditional men and traditional women can win 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

- On wokeness: wokeness is an extremely powerful memeplex, but it has gradually degenerated into internal bickering over who gets the most clout/most victim points. That is in fact a weakness.

Anyway, it seems to be a recognizable pattern.

A more productive attitude is to try as hard as possible to ignore and deflect negative-sum interactions, and focus on positive sum interactions where you can win together with others.