POLITICS

New Politics Are not Left nor Right. They’re Human

What do new, human politics mean? Here’s a compass for a fair, inclusive world

Desiree Driesenaar
Curated Newsletters
11 min readNov 23, 2020

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“We can’t solve the problems by the same kind of thinking we used when creating them”

Albert Einstein

The world is changing fast now. Thundering waves are eroding our rocks. And most of us only see the negative excesses. Destruction, inequality, and oppression. Politicians are trying to force limited routes out of the mess. They have different worldviews. And we currently categorize them in left and right.

The Left wants a big government. Curtailing free markets. Controlling businesses so they do as little harm as possible.

The Right wants the free market to be left alone. They say the market will solve all problems in the end.

Let me tell you, both of them are wrong. The eroding wave that will save us all is made out of collaborating, compassionate human drops. Not left, nor right, just human. And regenerative.

The left might feel a little more human than the right but they overlook the fact that we need businesses to create economic activity and wellbeing for our…

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