“Painting [others] as some sort of mortal enemies that shouldn’t be allowed to even breath” is the playbook of conservatives not progressives. If you were actually progressive you would implicitly understand that. You would also understand that conservatives hate people whereas progressives hate behavior. That is a big difference. The answers to the big problems society is facing is going to require more than just loudly proclaiming “we should be nice to each other.” When one side of the divide loathes your existence and does everything it can to marginalize you with closed ears, there is little room for dialog. My guess is that you’re a conservative with some cognitive dissonance bubbling up in light of the fact that the quiet parts are now being spoken out loud with fervor. Either way, your approach to slump into both-sides-ism is misguided and wrong.

One of the reasons fascism, intolerance, xenophobia, science denial, and the willful destruction of democracy has become the norm is because people like you and many of our “leaders” continue to try the “high road” engaging in good faith. You expect the same in return from a demographic that is incapable of it. Fascists do not want to “find common values and get a better understanding of you.” Your post is less about solving troubling realities of the world and more about flexing a pious mental masturbation.