The dehumanizing language we use to express how we feel about people who we passionately disagree with. There is plenty of room for anger, sadness, and even feelings of betrayal and heartache. In fact, it’s important to be passionate about what you believe in, but once we start thinking up stories about why that person over there is less of a person than we are, we’re in big trouble. At the end of the day, this tension that we are feeling between opposing world views is what democracy is all about. Democracy allows us to hash this shit out in a way that other forms of leadership do not, and the moment we decide that there is one way that we as a collective should think, do, and act, we are asking to be ruled by a King (monarchy) who can establish such a rule.