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Originally Posted by denphone
Its only political because some politicians chose to make it political on the basis they can score political points from it.
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It’s political because benefits on the scale of a welfare state can only be paid by a government, and a government can only operate on the basis of policy.
As we are a free and democratic country there has to be space for competing ideas - different potential policies. There’s no escaping that.
It is a mistake to use “make it political” as if that is a bad thing. It isn’t. Tribal point scoring is a sub-set of our political culture, but it is not an essential component. It is possible to be political without being poisonous.