Politics is simply eschatology that has not reasoned all the way to the end. Contemporary politics is completely bankrupt. The left and the right cannot make contact because neither is able to even conceive of the fundamental convictions that are motivating the other side, because neither side understands its own fundamental convictions, which are contradictory - and if they were understood they would evaporate, because they depend on their contradictory nature to be in place at all (in other words, people are generally only motivated by ideas that they do not understand, because these ideas have a charismatic glow, suggestive of the infinite, making the psychoanalytic transference possible).
In short, the contradiction for the right is the simultaneous endorsement of both tradition and capitalism, even though the latter is the great destroyer of the former. The great contradiction of the left is the simultaneous endorsement of morality and secularism, even though the latter destroys any possible basis for the former (because it explicitly relativizes all cultural claims to truth in the name of allowing everyone the right to their own culture).
The spell of politics must be broken so that eschatology can begin. This beginning involves three steps, which are derived from Marxism, psychoanalysis and theology, respectively.
The Marxist move is to show that there have been different modes of production in the past, which suggests that there could be a differerent mode in the future as well, and that achieving this higher mode on a civilizational scale is a higher priority than, say, saving jobs in a particular industry or maintaining equal respect for all cultural traditions. In other words, it sustains thirst for something genuinely different from and higher than capitalism - overcoming a particularly rampant weakness of imagination that is not able to conceive of truly fundamental change so instead focusses on less ambitious issues.
The psychoanalytic move is to show that every human being has a unique project in the name of which she or he can and should suffer, and that a great deal of political commentary is a symptom of a fundamental thwarting of this mission and the ensuing ressentiment. In other words it fosters a certain notion of heroism that is requisite for true forgiveness.
The theological move is to show that the object of ultimate concern is the achievement of a sustained joy that surpasses everything we associate with the coordinates we take to define ordinary reality, and that these latter coordinates are not eternal. This goes even beyond the mode of production that will transcend capital. This a matter of cultivating concrete experience of the noumenon - direct experience of God.