I have several comments that I have not published. It's not that they're overly contentious, it's just-- Most of them are trying to map recent events into the old familiar Left/Right paradigm, Democrats vs. Republicans. An awful lot of politicans and talking heads want to do that, too.
Maybe don't. It's easy, but the essential divide is between people who are willing to treat others as impediments, as things -- and those who refuse to. You don't kill people for espousing ideas you despise; you don't treat people like cattle. Suspected criminals offering no imminent threat should be arrested and charged, not killed offhand. Political opponents are debated, not demonized and threatened. You run against 'em in elections, you don't try to run them out of town.
These things used to be axiomatic, and while as a society we sometimes fell short of them, we knew it for a failure; we tried to do better.
When did we stop trying to do better?
Problem is, The Media loves all the various conflicting activities and pushes the "us/them" thing to its fullest extent. Gets more clicks, ya know.
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