I posted the picture of Thunberg opposite Rittenhouse. It was labeled our 17 year old vs. their 17 year old.
Ham asked if I was asserting that it is us vs. them.
I've thought about that question since he asked it and considered how I wanted to answer it.
The answer is that whether I like it or not, the answer is currently yes. There is a chasm between how black adolescents are treated and white, when there is no knowledge of a crime's having been committed. There is a chasm between how certain corporations behave around preserving the planet and how the citizens need them to treat the planet. There is an abyss between how the vast majority of GOP congressmen (Reps and Senators both) treat the laws of the land and how others do.
And for the most part, as I have pointed out previously, the response of the GOP to any attempts to compromise, to find middle ground, is to back away further rather than to come closer to said middle ground.
Whether it was Cruz's refusal to vote to fund emergency money for New Jersey, Trump's intransigence about Puerto Rico, or the failure of all but two Republicans to be willing to censure Rep Gosar, the pattern of their collective behavior makes it Them vs. Us, even if "Us" refuses to see or acknowledge it.
And "Us" is not the far left or somewhat left. "Us" is the nation as we have known it. Would that it were not so.
And no, I don't know how to fix it, but I do know that simply lying down and letting them trample "us" is not the way.