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There Are More than Two Viewpoints
Don’t lose hope. You are not alone. We can still get a win for logic and reason.
There are always more than two sides to any given matter. Hell, truth itself always comes in three distinct flavors:
· Mine
· Yours
· The Absolute
Maybe it’s for ease of understanding, but we are bombarded by messages of either/or, this or that, and choices on opposite ends of a given extreme. Yet really, the middle between these extremes is the absolute.
In the United States, we are facing an election that may well be all about the soul of the nation. One side, while imperfect, has a range of viewpoints. The other side has one — and it’s entirely based on attacking the opposite side.
The Republicans are all about “us” versus “them.” Their entire message is presently you are with us or against us. If you don’t find that utterly disheartening and disturbing — I have no idea what to tell you.
Extremism of this nature is not how the nation was founded in the first place. What’s more, in a modern society such as ours there are so many viewpoints — and negating and invalidating those in opposition of your own doesn’t do you or anyone else any good.
