When watching US politics from the outside, it's painfully obvious that there are two opposing sides two every debate, and that there are very few "moderate" views on the scale between the two extremes. In fact, there seems to be no scale at all, only the polar opposites. Why is that?
A simple but ugly explanation is that there is nothing that bridges good and evil, no intermediate position to take between the dark side and the light side. If you are evil, you have no capacity for compassion, empathy, kindness and self sacrifice for the greater good. Evil knows only greed, cruelty and self service. Evil considers decency and consideration for others a flaw and a weakness, and evil cannot understand how good people think, just as good people cannot understand how evil people think.
It is a sorry state of affairs that we are not seeing a debate between right and left, but between right and wrong. And to confuse things, the left side is the right side.
The political "right" in the US has gone berserk and descended into pure evil, and they are on the wrong side of history. We can only hope that history does not change sides.
