Originally Posted by
Singu
I don't necessarily think that you'd have to be "nice" and stop criticizing, but you will need to come up with alternative ideas. So even if you're critical of the majority party, if you don't have any alternatives then they can just say "Yeah well what are you going to do about it? You have no alternative". "There Is No Alternative" is a dangerous phrase in a democracy. It makes it no different than dictatorship.
So for example things have been stagnating in economics, because economists have been pretending that neoliberalism is the only way, and that "there is no alternative". Well it turns out there are, and things like MMT are one of them and that's why people are finally starting to flock to alternative economic theories. So people will flock to alternatives, if the current one isn't working and if there is one. People knew that there is something wrong with the economy, but they had no alternative to turn to. Now they do.
So basically, liberals, conservatives, centrists, etc, are all potentially good, as long as they can criticize and produce new ideas. What's "evil" is if they don't accept any criticisms and won't let any new ideas to emerge.