Not merely 'playing both sides'.
INTRODUCING A MANUFACTURED SET OF TWO 'SIDES' EACH WITH A PRESCRIPTED NARRATIVE.
And everyone is to be 'interpreted' as speaking and acting exclusively to 'promote one side' and 'oppress' the other side'.
And it's not merely "a" two sided manufactured set of opposites.
They keep introducing different two sided sets of opposites as each previous set is echoed in fake news, trusted, 'sublimated' and 'adopted/normalized', from one 'current thing' political expedience to expand power and wealth, to the next.
The solution is to stop playing their game, and learn to play the game