What if I don't feel like coming together with the other side?

[superpatriotman]

As a rule, I tend to not associate or identify with the delusional or the hyper-partisan. My understanding and empathy for them ends at fiction.

Why in the world should we have to bend to the crazies who have pulled the country so far to the right and into a paranoid world of make-believe?

I’d rather make my side of the aisle bigger and more inclusive using the truth while watching with relief as the other side eventually implodes under the weight of their own unearned self-importance and hypocrisy.

[Walleye]

1. The bothsidesism is killing us

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Especially when they don't, so they don't, and they're never expected to!

[lagomorph777]

3. We've compromised way too much already.

That's how we ended up on the edge of the cliff. There's no more room for compromise.

[Calista241]

4. I blame social media. n/t

[Earth-shine]

5. It probably won't come to that.

The other side has no interest in compromising with us.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I will never rub shoulders with these people

I will be 49 on Sunday - and this magat evil will be in play in America for the rest of my life.

I will never forget them having 'reasons' for voting not once - but twice - for someTHING that would seek to destroy American Democracy.

No way, no how - never.

We never have to come together with those 'things'.

[agingdem]

7. we Dems have a habit of

deifying anyone on the other side that has an occasional wisp of conscience and does the right thing...never mind most voted against advancing the voting rights bill and BBB...(don't get me started on middle school mean girl Sinema and houseboat captain Manchin!)...

[KPN]

8. Not to worry. Didn't you hear DeSantis the other day

droning about putting a stop to the divisiveness by passing a law to make it illegal for teachers in Florida to talk about anything in class that might cause students any discomfort, like CRT or racism?

They aren’t going to come together with you or us, so no worry about that on our part.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Hard to connect with people who wish you dead.