There Is No Middle of the Road

We speak so much about divisiveness in U.S. politics that we often overlook how, I believe literally, everything else in our lives is going to extremes at the very same time.

To take one of hundreds of glaring examples, look at organized religion. We see Pope Francis, the leader of over 1.3 billion baptized Catholics, taking on many dozens of deeply humanitarian concerns, in this case, prison reform.

At the same moment, we have the galling concept that God ordained Donald Trump to run America, which, apparently, is “growing in popularity among some Religious Right leaders and Republican Party political operatives.”