Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
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Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
Australia works because it stays balanced. Its democracy is not built on simple agreement, but on the disciplined interaction between different ways of seeing the world. Labor and Liberal are not just rival teams. Together, they form the smallest political structure capable of holding a complex society together. Two sides generate debate, correction, and restraint. […]