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There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground (time.com)
submitted 2 days ago by FloridaBoi@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net
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The middle is a point equidistant from two poles. That’s it. There is nothing inherently virtuous about being neither here nor there. Buried in this is a false equivalency of ideas, what you might call the “good people on both sides” phenomenon.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had not realized that this was written in 2018... Going to have to same this one.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

It’s a good one