There are 2 types of people in the world….

It’s funny, this image stood out to me today in spite of the fact that it had very little to do with my own experience of reality this week. Most of my time was spent travelling and visiting old friends. But sometimes touching base with people you haven’t seen in a while allows you to see the drift that has occurred between two viewpoints.

I have drifted ever rightward over the years, and friends of mine have listed left. Or even stayed the same. But it’s easier to see after some time away, like how you need to put a piece of writing out of your mind for a while to get the most out of self-editing.

And honestly, as “alarming” as this graphic seems to be at first – is it really such a bad thing? Pew seems to be conflating Democrat with liberal and Republican with conservative. It would make sense that, as it becomes clear that Democrat and Republican are really two sides of the same coin, that actual true differences might appear between the left and the right (instead of a pile of bi-factional globalist mush).

On the other hand, maybe we can’t get along after all.