There Are No Sides

No title could be more ironic than “there are no sides” on the day of U.S. mid-term elections of 2022, but ultimately it’s true. Americans have been duped into hating each other to a degree not seen since the Civil War in the 1860’s. This observation was by far the most jarring of all the facets of culture shock I experienced upon returning to America in 2020 after a decade in Japan. A lot happened in America during those ten years, but as horrible as some of those things seemed to be for both o...