Politics
The Other Side Is Not Your Enemy
An aggressively centrist view of American politics
Though it may not feel like it, we are not seeing the most turbulent time in American politics. No one alive was there, but I’m pretty sure that the political upheaval just before or during the American Civil War was worse than this.
Maybe not by much, though.
America is undoubtedly tearing itself apart, and we’re watching it happen on social media, which might make it worse. Everyone on every feed seems to have a political pundit telling them whom to believe, whom to harass, and whom to silence. None of that is good for our republic.
We are divided, more than we’ve been in over a century. And it’s not going to get better, not while we keep treating the “other side” as enemies.
Seeing those you disagree with as an opponent may not seem like a problem when you’re in the middle of a heated argument, but it becomes a big problem when you consider the fact that we all live in the same country, sometimes in the same cities or even in the same home.
Enemies cannot coexist. They don’t share.
