After analyzing various two-party conflicts, I’ve come to notice that they tend not to be exactly “two-party”, but rather four, where each side’s bad eggs use each other as excuse for their own extremism. Meanwhile, the common folk on each side, or ones truly committed to their cause, got exploited by these bad eggs, yet kept treating them like allies, be it due to tribalism, reluctance to accept that what said eggs do actually hurt their cause, inability to tell them from legit allies, or other factors.
I consider the bad eggs to be separate parties from those sides they claim to be part of, since they tend to hurt the cause, while simultaneously feeding their “opponent” bad eggs.
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