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Kotenks posted...

I don't see any path to it. Politics has become so divisive. People aren't even willing to see the other side's perspective. It's getting more toxic. I don't feel comfortable discussing politics with people as much now. It's like if you're not one hundred percent with them, then you're against them because you're enabling the other side.

This is the mindset that needs to change.

From what I've seen the right is in a position where most of them have suffered immensely while the political elites and coastal democrats have mocked and belittled them. In other words, for a lot of them they're struggling with the fact that their jobs are vanishing, income is disappearing, and everything else while wealthy coastal democrats tell them to 'learn to code' from their vacation houses or lockdown everything before attending lavish parties and salons to get their hair done. There is effectively no way to get them to calm down so long as this sort of thing is ongoing.

Meanwhile, the left sees the world as descending into a bout of fascism and racism with discrimination and oppression effectively everywhere. To them the right has become a bunch of fanatical nazi's willing to oppress and destroy the minority groups for their own betterment. In other words they are the heroes and their opponents are evil incarnate.

The problem is that this means that there's effectively no way to de-escalate. The right won't be happy until they see the people who keep kicking them about and treating them like garbage are punished and depowered while the left won't be happy until the right is destroyed because they seem them as inherently evil. Take a look at this poll. As of this posting ~40% of people think 'Trumps head on a stick' will de-escalate things. This simply isn't the case. Something like that would only convince the right that they have no choice BUT to fight back because, otherwise, certain death (or depowerment) awaits. Meanwhile only ~9% see Biden's head on a stick as something that would de-escalate and I'm 100% willing to wager it's because most of the right doesn't believe Biden is the problem; it's the system that got him elected in the first place. I.E. that a bunch of political elites and coastal city dems voted for someone they see as unfit simply to get Trump out, are going to use their power to further crush the right, and there's nothing that can be done about it because it's the system that's corrupt.

The sad truth is that there really is no evident path to unification at this point. Maybe something will present itself; but it needs to happen soon or else things will get much worse.

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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage