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For the last twenty years I thought things would eventually just come back to center. I’m not sure anymore. It’s possible it’s as follows: One side will win. History will be written by those winners. Pick your side and fight for it?

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This is the fight we are being led into but there is another way. Compromise and working together. Truth be told it would be the best for both sides, and both sides are equally as guilty in not achieving it.

I think this is true, and I think this is also the historically precedented answer. The partisanship in Europe in the early 20th century was not resolved by debate or belief, it was resolved by war and more generally political realignment. The vast divide between capitalism and communism was resolved by cold "war," by two superpowers aligning one with each and declaring the opposing ideology a security threat and then trying to starve out the other.

I think we can avoid another major war, but I don't think we can avoid one ideology winning and one losing.

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