You know who's causing the dichotomy? Americans, and "the west" in general.

I feel like any conversation Americans have isn't even about the thing itself anymore. It's more about preserving their underlying dichotomy, the biggest of them all, which is:

Democrats vs Republicans.

"Liberals" vs "Conservative".

So there is no middle ground on any topic anymore. There is only "oh what's their view on it? Great, now we gotta have the opposite."

"They like guns? Well we gotta ban every damn gun. They don't like guns? Well we gotta have guns at every damn place in the country. Oh they want to ban abortion? We want free abortion for every fuckin body. They want free abortion for everybody? We have to stop anyone from getting an abortion under in any circumstance."

Shit show.