I still maintain the most genuinely radical thing anyone can do is taking responsibility for their own actions.

Because very few people on either side of the political spectrum do it, and they need to acknowledge that they fucked up instead of blaming everyone else for their problems. We can’t move forward in discourse or even as a species if we’re not going to say “yeah, I did this, sorry”, own it, and learn from it.

Tribal mentalities are essentially horseshit for this very reason, as we tend to look at our in-group as “people who can do no wrong” just because we are in that group. Everyone needs to own up to their shit instead of competing to see who’s the more ideologically “pure” and then lose our empathy for anyone who isn’t exactly like us. No one is immune from making mistakes; never think that you are but the other guy isn’t.