One major unanswered point never brought up in these discussions. What about the rights of those of us who don't really care about the society but about only our own situations. In our most recent election, doesn't It bother anyone that HALF of the nation disagrees with you and your philosophies no matter which side you're on?
An amazing look at the map of the election results; The entire northeast went Democrat. Kind of looks like the north and the south of the civil war.
It‘s one of the problems of the human mind (e.g. according to teachers of Buddhism) to think in binary oppositions. It‘s more a simplified illusion than reality that there is only black or white, Republican or Democrat etc. In fact, I‘m sure many people are somewhere in between the extremes, but due to the majority voting system the map suggests states are completely red or blue (although we all know it‘s not true). It‘s a pity we always want to find the total contrast and the „other“ we want to disidentify with.
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