What is the Antidote to Polarization?

Origins of Polarization in the World:

Let's examine polarization a little bit today, when the world is re-evolving into bipolarity.

During both the first and the second great wars, the world lived its bipolar order as a realist ideology.

In the first war, the capitalist powers, acting together to overthrow empires, joined forces with communism in the second and destroyed Fascism and Nazism.

The world, which experienced idealism between the two world wars and tried to unite through the "League of Nations", faced its second great war 20 years after the end of the first one, due to unfair agreements such as Versailles and Sèvres. What actually happened was two parts of one war.

The winners of the second part of the only great war, through the "United Nations" and its "Security Council", have shaped the world order in line with their own ambitions and interests, again as bipolar.

One of the poles was NATO led by the USA and the other was the Warsaw Pact led by the USSR.

As a result of the process that started with Glasnost and Perestroika, demolishing the Berlin wall and the USSR experiencing this destruction within itself, the world found itself in a unipolar order in the 1990s.

Unipolar World Order:

The USA entered the 21st century as the sole superpower, but in the first decade, when instead of sharing the enrichment provided by globalization with the world, instead of sharing it with itself and the capitalist world, those impoverished by globalization and watching this wealth with envy emerged through terrorism and their planes were like knives into the heart of the capitalist world. stabbed.

The first 10 years of the 21st century, when bipolarity began to be experienced with states on one side and terrorists on the other, passed with military operations watched live on television. The USA, which has made terrorism the second pole, has thus begun to penetrate all the regions it desires in Asia and the Middle East.

The second decade of this century, in particular, the Arab Spring and the Syrian crisis, transformed the world from bipolarity to multipolarity. In this period, when every state made their proxies fight for their own interests and blood and tears intensified, not only the USA, but also other major and regional powers began to use non-state organizations as their proxies for their own interests.

When we reach 2020, the world is so tired of these fights, turmoil and wars that a virus has emerged just so you can heal yourself a little bit.

Those who attacked each other like crazy, those who lost their humanity, those who held power, those who did everything for money and those who disregard nature, were defeated by an invisible virus.

The world did what was necessary for humanity, which could not learn to live without polarization.

While the virus was slowly disappearing, the world found itself in political polarization again with the Russia-Ukraine war.

The beginning of polarization is the hills, the heads.

Just as the poles are above and below the world, the aim of those who try to polarize is to put themselves on a top and others at the bottom.

However, it does not live in the poles.

It is not possible to live in peace or in polarization.

Against polarization, compromise and superficiality are essential.

The most beautiful places in the world are neither at the center nor at the poles, but between the center and the pole.

Polarization in Politics:

Just like the best position in politics.

The reasons for political polarization are no different.

Be it political or world order, it is the heads that create the polarization.

Polarization is frequently used in order to consolidate, marginalize and hostile supporters, and thus to implement their policies. Enemies are created and how dangerous these creatures are is pumped through the supporters.

Polarization starts from the top down, not from the bottom up. The further it spreads down, the more successful it is at the top.

In periods when feet are heads and heads are feet, polarizing actions, discourses and behaviors form the main axis of politics.

Conclusion:

The way to get rid of these political maneuvers is to increase the effectiveness of the rulers who are conciliatory, have the potential to act together and are free of arrogance in the world order and politics.

The only power that will enable unifying and conciliatory leaders and administrators to be effective in the political arena is the educated, developed peoples who do not allow their perceptions to be managed.

That's why, as the education level rises, the preferences of the people develop and change towards reconciliation, that's why the masses that polarizers dislike the most are educated, and that's why, as the genius leader Atatürk, who saw these days clearly years ago, said, "Education is; It either makes a nation live as a free, independent, glorious, high community or leaves it to bondage and misery.

The antidote to polarization and backwardness is education.