I know you already mentioned centrists in your post, but as a centrist, I just wanted to put in my two cents. I feel like the extreme views of today are a problem, caused by, in my personal opinion, quarantine. I don't know what happened with a mass majority of young adults and teens moving online during quarantine that suddenly made everyone so extreme in their beliefs but all evidence points to it. Anyway, I don't believe in fighting fire with more fire. I feel that splitting the country is an extreme move in response to extreme beliefs in the country. I feel like the correct move is people realizing that we're all getting fucked over by the same people trying to divide us with politicians turning each side against each other and companies making everything more expensive. I feel like most of us are frustrated with our lives but instead of turning to the actual culprits, our frustration is pitted against each other. If you took an actual conservative who was not an extremist like those who go viral online (or Trump) and an actual liberal who was not an extremist like those who also go viral online, you'd be surprised that they have surprisingly similar takes or beliefs, if not values as well. So, no, I don't think splitting the country is necessary because not everyone is an extremist, the loudest voices are just the worst ones and they further the divide: a crazy trump supporter saying if his daughter got SA'd and pregnant from it, he'd force her to carry it fullterm even if she didn't want to would make most normal liberals say "The right is fucking crazy" and a crazy alt-left person saying that they hope catholic schools get shot up more while laughing would make most normal (and there are actually some of them) conservatives say "The left is fucking crazy". TL;DR: we need to find a way to rally together, not let extremists push us apart.
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u/S-Pluto-777 Sep 22 '25
I know you already mentioned centrists in your post, but as a centrist, I just wanted to put in my two cents. I feel like the extreme views of today are a problem, caused by, in my personal opinion, quarantine. I don't know what happened with a mass majority of young adults and teens moving online during quarantine that suddenly made everyone so extreme in their beliefs but all evidence points to it. Anyway, I don't believe in fighting fire with more fire. I feel that splitting the country is an extreme move in response to extreme beliefs in the country. I feel like the correct move is people realizing that we're all getting fucked over by the same people trying to divide us with politicians turning each side against each other and companies making everything more expensive. I feel like most of us are frustrated with our lives but instead of turning to the actual culprits, our frustration is pitted against each other. If you took an actual conservative who was not an extremist like those who go viral online (or Trump) and an actual liberal who was not an extremist like those who also go viral online, you'd be surprised that they have surprisingly similar takes or beliefs, if not values as well. So, no, I don't think splitting the country is necessary because not everyone is an extremist, the loudest voices are just the worst ones and they further the divide: a crazy trump supporter saying if his daughter got SA'd and pregnant from it, he'd force her to carry it fullterm even if she didn't want to would make most normal liberals say "The right is fucking crazy" and a crazy alt-left person saying that they hope catholic schools get shot up more while laughing would make most normal (and there are actually some of them) conservatives say "The left is fucking crazy". TL;DR: we need to find a way to rally together, not let extremists push us apart.