Is there a middle?

When sides define themselves by what they are against and adopt beliefs and policies opposite to those they are against to create distance and separation between them, the middle vanishes. The middle left and the middle right exist, but they differ as much or more between them as from their own extremes. Only in appealing to common interests can a middle form. When is the last time someone on your side had something good to say about the opposition, or you yourself? When those things that divide us outweigh those that unite us, the center cannot last.