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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

We won't prevent it until people learn to start talking to each other with compassion instead of hostility.

You can't empathize with literal fascist... For two parties to reach common ground there has to be an assumption of both parties bargaining in good faith. If you continue to do that with fascist, people end up in camps.

As it stands, both sides think the other side is completely insane, and to some extent violent, and that they should not be associated with unless you are harassing them.

Well.... In the last 30 years, how many mass casualties events have been perpetrated by liberal or leftist extremist? You can't falsely conflate "both sides" when only one has a well recorded history of violence.

There is no common ground when the side you want people to compromise with wants to put me and my family in a prison camp.

We've already burned the whole bridge down, and now need to rebuild it somehow. If republicans and democrats were separated geographically they might just split the country in two, but as it stands nearly every state has a large population of both, so in my opinion the only way forward is reconciliation.

Conservatism isn't an ethnicity....... It's a dangerous ideology that should have been stamped out during reconstruction after the last civil war. But people like you had the great idea of compromising reconstruction with reconciliation, so now we have to stomp it to death once again.