A 20 foot high wall is not opposition to a 50 foot high wall.
They have their answers. We must have ours.
Authoritarians have been fighting hard for decades to create a reality that is utterly incompatible with freedom for anyone but them.
Nor should we seek one.
Any middle ground is for them only a temporary staging ground from which to further enforce their reality upon everyone else.
You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.
“Meet me in the middle,” says the unjust man.
These people are fundamentally aligned with authoritarianism. There is no middle ground to be found with this.
There is no middle ground, not because we are uncivil or open-minded, but because there is no room for it in the reality they’ll enforce.
They are SAYING so.
Authoritarianism allows no middle ground, no neutrality, no compromise.
And, so, there can be none.