Hah, I’m in the center (at least compared to the self-identified leftists here) and even I’m not eager to unite with either the people to my right or the people to my left. I’m willing to tolerate in order to preserve democracy and the rule of law, but I don’t see how to unite with people whose goals for this country are incompatible with my own. I do think that tolerance would be sufficient if everyone did it - people in the past sometimes managed to attain peace that way even when they still hated each other, because they were exhausted by conflict. But the conflict here may still just be beginning and people aren’t exhausted yet.
Hah, I’m in the center (at least compared to the self-identified leftists here) and even I’m not eager to unite with either the people to my right or the people to my left. I’m willing to tolerate in order to preserve democracy and the rule of law, but I don’t see how to unite with people whose goals for this country are incompatible with my own. I do think that tolerance would be sufficient if everyone did it - people in the past sometimes managed to attain peace that way even when they still hated each other, because they were exhausted by conflict. But the conflict here may still just be beginning and people aren’t exhausted yet.