Well, if people try to stay away from polarised politics, that definitely won't improve the situation.
IMO the importance in reading all sides (IMO there're much more than 2 sides, even in US, let alone Europe and the rest of the world) is to learn that all sides deep bellow have some good ideas, some bad ideas and then there's reasoning behind them. And different contexts where some bad ideas actually are an improvement and good ideas would be net negative.
Of course, it's takes energy to read into that. It needs smart and thinking population to work. Personally I think classic philosophy is a good starting point. Pre-modern-era history. It gives some perspective how different contexts shape people. How things change in a sort of circular way. How societies were built and how they crashed.
It's the curse of democracy. On one hand, it's great. On the other hand, it's damn hard work to keep it well oiled.
At the end of the day, I think there's no need to „unify“ people for the sake of it. Different people live in different contexts and naturally they come to different conclusions. What we need is to get people into more intelligent mode. All camps need to get to the root of their issues and think of a constructive way to fix them. Rather than just destroy the world and hope the issue fixes itself. And then we need more autonomy at all levels so people living different contexts can try out their ideas at small scale.
IMO the importance in reading all sides (IMO there're much more than 2 sides, even in US, let alone Europe and the rest of the world) is to learn that all sides deep bellow have some good ideas, some bad ideas and then there's reasoning behind them. And different contexts where some bad ideas actually are an improvement and good ideas would be net negative.
Of course, it's takes energy to read into that. It needs smart and thinking population to work. Personally I think classic philosophy is a good starting point. Pre-modern-era history. It gives some perspective how different contexts shape people. How things change in a sort of circular way. How societies were built and how they crashed.
It's the curse of democracy. On one hand, it's great. On the other hand, it's damn hard work to keep it well oiled.
At the end of the day, I think there's no need to „unify“ people for the sake of it. Different people live in different contexts and naturally they come to different conclusions. What we need is to get people into more intelligent mode. All camps need to get to the root of their issues and think of a constructive way to fix them. Rather than just destroy the world and hope the issue fixes itself. And then we need more autonomy at all levels so people living different contexts can try out their ideas at small scale.