Multiplexer

I am only exhibiting that specific rational-humane dimension currently because I have the feeling, that Lemmy is too much of an left echo chamber at the moment drifting to much into extreme territory.
That doesn't solve anything, but is part of the problem.
As is the same process on platforms like truth.social. Just the other way round.
I am actually part of what is trying to bring another (and be it just a single...) additional dimension to a currently totally one-dimensional discourse.

That sounds depressing. But you are still a strong democracy, with powerful and largely intact barriers against fascism. Yes, fight fascism. But perhaps in the democratic and humane way the Constitution envisioned.

Perhaps people draw different clues from the same events and it is good to hear them to see which options there are.
And one clue if have is that one of the reasons why things are as they are is that people are too much enclosed inside their own bubbly echo chambers nowadays.
I am not part of your bubble and yet I am talking to you. And that is a good thing.

Just consider if escalating to the next stage is the right response. You are still a democracy. Use that power. Talk to people. Normal people, not crazies on the internet. And also don't become crazies on the internet yourself. You have a lot of leverage now with all that shit which is going on as arguments to make people reconsider.

But I have the impression that I am watching it becoming a "both sides issue" in realtime... I don't like that.
Don't give up your humanitarian values just because parts of the other side do.

Nothing drastic necessary, just a lot of little steps:
Step by step establishing a normal dialog again.

Something drastic would be a civil war, and that would also not unite you instantly again, but just would let you reconsider the tiny-step-by-tiny-step talking-to-each-other-thing from a different perspective again.

Please don't choose the drastic way. Also because the rest of the world still relies on you too much (speaking as someone from outside the US)

I have to say, reading all those comments during the last two days here, I also don't get the impression that the left are eager to unite the US again...
Please, get your shit together over there. BOTH sides.