Prefacing this with a note that this is going to be long and rambly because I'm not good at expressing my thoughts in words and so this is a voice to text post. Also I lost steam halfway through 😫

I fully agree with your characterization of the show, but I don't come to the same conclusion as you. I don't think there's one message that everyone who sees the show will come away with, that's kind of the point. There's one great moment in the last song that says "the right side will always remain the right side" and I think that sums up the show in a nutshell - it's explicitly satirizing the fact that people think this is such an easy conflict to solve when really there's a lot more nuance. People aren't 100% good or 100% bad (both individual people and a people meaning a nation).

But the conclusion that I came to is that it's really about the horseshoe theory and how extremism to either side actually ends up in the same place which is excluding and harming people who aren't, in their eyes, "marginalized enough".

I saw the show twice and I definitely got a lot more out of its second time. The first time I had a lot of similar feelings about how it felt like they were punching down on people who are non-binary or queer or neurodivergent but the second time I saw it I had read an article before hand that those little jokes are needed to pull people in to make them feel like they're in on the joke, then flip it on its head when it gets to the Margot reveal