If we aren't anticipating changes in understanding and reconciliation beyond the "conservative vs. liberal" and "Republican vs Democrat" splits, then we're likely only wanting to win over others.
It's unlikely advances in our present human crises will result in either side winning, but rather a "new psychological view point" which no one could have planned. I must constantly remind myself of this, or else participate in what easily becomes a mean-spirited polarization; a following after a political ideology or religious system as a "one and only" way. Such perspectives, tempting and common, make us rigid, inflexible and less-useful vessels for creative solutions.
Expecting a new view point is likely a more healthy way to think and hope about resolving logically insurmountable splits and divisions. The "union of opposites," whenever it happens, strikes human consciousness as a miracle and creates a genuinely new view point. This more depth hopeful view of an evolving solution is part of the ancient wisdom rediscovered by C G Jung and found in the highest spiritual teachings of humanity.
I suspect humanity is on the verge of transcending our best, but presently failed, efforts at loving the Earth and each other. No person or group will be able to take credit for that should it happen. We will just "know" that humanity and creation is ONE far more than we do now. The human species could be saved from self-destruction by its own painful path toward increased psychological consciousness of such possibilities. And a large part of humanity could be gripped by a genuine and natural religious attitude which loves its own species and the Earth with her delicate processes. This my hope.
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