I sat here looking at your response for a couple of minutes thinking over several false starts to try to express what is in effect my agreement.

Something is wrong.

One side screams about the US being mistreated in trade agreements, but are they willing to change their tastes to favor quality over quantity in order to favor local producers? It takes time and planning and the willingness to cook.

Another side is screaming about observing 200 different genders while at the same time their favored politician can be complicit in laying sovereign nations in smoking ruins.

it feels like somehow we have trained ourselves to look at some incredibly small range of issues directly in front of our noses to the exclusion of EVERYTHING else. It feels like an almost religious certainty over one's views rather than something can evolve.

I am almost beginning to support the idea of apathy. After all, what else would be the opposite of zealotry? ;-p