It is and always will be a dog eat dog world and "safe zones" in school are creating sheep and not wolves.
I hope you like a world full of wolves badly needing some therapy then. PTSD has done wonders for the world, no doubt. /s
Edward R. Murrow said:
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
FWIW, I agree completely, but it goes both ways. Conservatives need to keep an open mind to liberal ideas where they are working well just as much as liberals need to get of their high horse and realize they aren't right about everything (or honestly, quite a bit).
The only solution is abiding by the 10th amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I think the only permanent solution is restructuring how legislatures work:
Federal: 90% to pass
State: 80% to pass
County: 70% to pass
City: 60% to pass
100% liberalism and conservativism would fail federally. Only sane policies like authorizing fire fighters to put out fires on private property without permission would pass (because fires spread when unchecked).
The minimum 90% majority protects the rights of the minority, an important facet of republics.
In a lot of situations, as specified by the 10th amendment, it is best when government doesn't act at all. America is supposed to be largely about self-governance and by ignoring the 10th amendment, the US as a whole drifted far from that principle. It was a terrible mistake and this election is proof of it. The reason why there is so much fighting is because people who desire power have something to fight over. If voting policy above was put in place and the federal government shrunk as a consequence of it, would people really even care who wins a federal election? Most of what they do domestically will never see the light of day anyway. This is the way it was back in Washington's day.
I think
@TheMailMan78 had it right when he said:
I was never afraid of his/her supporters. I was afraid of his government.
...but not because of physical fear but fear of tyranny, of oppression, of what unrestrained governments that are 30-40% of your economy do. Governments that ignore its very Constitution unless it suits itself (case in point: Obamacare which the late, great Scalia warned would weaken SCOTUS). I fear a future where individual rights truly don't exist and that's something every self-determining being should be fearful of.
As
@TheMailMan78 said, the 2nd amendment is the exit clause. It was what allowed the American Civil War to happen. Certain individuals focus on reducing/eliminating it because they fear what happens when they take policy too far.
Have
some quotes from past presidents warning of the dangers of government (ordered by presidency):
George Washington said:
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
John Adams said:
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Thomas Jefferson said:
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
James Madison said:
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Abraham Lincoln said:
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Theodore Roosevelt said:
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I.
Woodrow Wilson said:
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Calvin Coolidge said:
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said:
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
John F. Kennedy said:
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
Gerald R. Ford said:
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Ronald Reagan said:
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
...reading those, you should be able to think of a lot of modern examples where government has violated those tenants. Obamacare checks off virtually every one: there was no debate in Congress over it,
it's not something a vast majority of Americans wanted, it fines people for using their liberty to not participate, it was authored so agencies control it (Department of Health and Human Services and Internal Revenue Service) and not the people, the list goes on and on.
How does this relate to tech? Public surveillance, national firewalls (China, Australia, and now Russia is working on one), and governments defeating widely used security protocols (e.g. HTTPS). It's a dangerous world we live in but it is kept out of sight so it largely doesn't influence votes.