One of the sides my Quaking Dover presentation for Cape Cod Friends awakened in me was a nagging awareness that some of the elements that encouraged social progressive action could also be used to sustain reactionary conservative activism from the other sides as well.
This could be seen especially in the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of the Roe decision, the result of a long-term resistance movement, where reactionary forces could claim a victory.
Quite simply, both side have deep roots, perhaps unlike the middle.
My big question now is what makes one morally superior to the other.
The answers, I suspect, can be quite humbling. As well as a point of common engagement.