I find it edifying to consider that the brain capacity of H. sapiens has been dramatically reduced since the LGM. Neanderthals had brains ~20% larger than our own, but the Cro Magnons that succeeded them had larger brains than they. ~25% of our intellectual capacity has been lost in the intervening domestication that has been undertaken by our psychopathic overlords since then.
This reduction in our mental facility is reflected in politics, and derives from the parasitic power of institutions that have been necessary to industrial development in recent history. The rate of stupefaction continues to increase, and today is accompanied by the incredibly rapid loss of fertility and feminization of civilized men. Switzerland, which avoided the economic destruction of both WWI and WWII, today has men that average penises ~1/2" shorter than their fathers'.
Endeavoring to support politics is submitting to human husbandry that is presently rendering humanity infertile, creating a deified class of psychopathic overlords that wield the institutions parasitizing us all. Centrists are universally reviled because it is the last step in the transcendence of politics altogether, and the power of individuals versus institutions the only threat to the attainment of deification psychopathic overlords have nearly completed today.
Coupled with ongoing distribution of individually suitable means of production modern technological advance is developing, folks that nominally disregard politics - institutional control - and effect their own security as they do provide their own goods and services, free and competent individuals render institutional power obsolete. This does not suit psychopaths that intend soon to be worshiped as gods.
The sides pitted against one another that have replaced lions, tigers, bears, and Neanderthals as our societal enemies cannot win. As you point out being pitted against other political factions simply pits humanity against itself, and we can only lose that contest, never win, because winning would only be possible through genocide. It is only transcending institutional control and gaining nominal means of production to create our quality of life while reversing our incipient forced infertility that enables any semblance of humanity to our posterity.
Nature provides myriad examples of social insects along the scale from those that merely are willing to cooperate when profitable to those in which total eusociality has reduced all but royalty to infertility. We can see what will happen to humanity if we do not assume our ability to pass our personal merit to our posterity.
If evil exists, we will suffer it should we fail to retain our human agency. I will leave imagining that unimaginabe future nearly upon us today to better minds than mine. It is all I can manage to consider how to reverse the ongoing chemical castration of humanity and distribute individually suitable means of production nominally to enable those with merit to secure their persons, families, communities, and wealth from psychopaths wielding institutional power.
We are become able to restore to humanity our legacy intelligence, for which our species is named. I reckon we should, and anticipate the future of free and prosperous people undertaking to bring the blessings of life to a barren universe where joy and good company will be our happy lot, freed of the vampiric parasitization that has so plagued society since our domestication began.
Homo sapiens sapiens, or Homo sapiens vulgaris, is the choice before us. We choose, and failing to succeed to the former will result in the latter. Never has such a moment been availed us before. Pasty politics pales in contrast. I note that priests and prophets have ever pointed to this day, and prophesied that the heavens would be filled with the joyful visages of the free and prosperous humanity that seize merit from the conflagration of degradation threatening to consume us all.
The means will justify the ends, and I will be content.