This is a battle between those who believe in a multicultural future and those who don't.

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25. We didn't though. Our problem is not that

we were pandering to extremism.

Our problem is that malignant, extremist forces successfully destroyed the alliance between more moderate ideologies on both sides that kept the hard-cores and outright haters mostly in check. And with that, by playing on massive anxiety about rampaging change and exaggerating genuine differences, and by employing modern communications as a form of poison Kool-Aid, they were able to unite all factions of the right against the left. They split the middle.

THE ONLY THING HOLDING THOSE WARRING FACTIONS, WHO DESPISE EACH OTHER, TOGETHER is that they are united against us. Currently. If we disappeared, the coalition on the would fall apart. Probably the same day.

We're not going to disappear, so we have to find other ways. Our solution has to include weakening the wall holding them together by giving moderates room to separate from the hard-cores, not strengthening it by attacking those once-moderates and building the wall higher.