I completely agree. Left and Right tribalism weakens us. It seems to me that those in charge WANT a civil war. Cmpalmer 75's questions... el gato malo's analyses... we have the common ground.... we need to crowd source: we need to bring together what we know, who we know, figure out and deploy our skills... such that when "reality is a creepy duck faced bureaucrat telling you you have to stay in your hutch" (el gato malo), we, the broad anonymous masses of readers and writers, can act TOGETHER to sink their duckboat of autocratic pronouncements. This is not a left versus right issue. To spend a single second acting like it is weakens us.