Political Binaries Are Idolatrous

Political movements that demand absolute allegiance treat temporal politics as if they were ultimate, theological claims. That conflation (calling worldly disagreement moral treason) short-circuits deliberation and incentivizes escalation and exclusion. — If public discourse normalizes ‘with us or against us’ framing, democratic dispute resolution and institutional pluralism will be further eroded, raising risks of radicalization and breakdown of civic norms.