Balance is the Ultimate Truth

When you create something unbalanced, it eventually spins apart.

The world is constantly trying to balance itself both in nature and society. Countries and the people within those countries (haves and have-nots, minorities, poor, marginalized) that have had far less than the United States are hungry to work hard to achieve equivalent power, wealth, and quality-of-life.

That would seem fair if you put yourself in their shoes, but people currently holding the power and money don’t just freely give it away. You have to fight for it, so the process of balancing is rocky, mistakes are made, and the pendulum sometimes swings too far, but over time the balancing will happen and stability is achieved.

The world will always be in flux when it is out of balance. Balance is the ultimate truth and state for world stability and peace, and that knowledge should drive our decisions as a global community. Over time, nationalism must recede and acquiesce to the inevitable globalization and balancing of our planet if we are to (a) stop fighting each other all the time, and (b) sustain ourselves as a species.

this extreme	BALANCE	that extreme
individual liberty	balance	common good
strong local cultural values	balance	welcoming assimilation of immigrant cultures
border security	balance	humanity
unlimited extraction	sustainability	protecting earth's finite resources
preventing manipulation	persuasion	suppressing dissent
socio-economic systems	balance	biophysical earth systems
american exceptionalism	balance	cooperation in solidarity for common good
citizens' contract with police	balance	police contract with citizens
nationalism and isolationism	balance	internationalism and globalization
spend money to fight climate change (Biden)	Climate Change	spend money to extract and monetize climate change (Trump)
panic	coronavirus	proactive
ayn rand capitalism	balance	the common good
catastrophizing	balance	glass half-full
risk	balance	reward
freedom (of speech)	democracy	accountability (civility)
sustainability	between a rock and a hard spot	production
do unto others	golden rule	others do unto you
wants	government	needs
buy-america jobs	balance	lowest cost infrastructure
help the helpless	balance	spend within means
finite resources on earth	balance	growth to create jobs
free trade	balance	climate policy
left trying to survive	balance	right protecting wealth
concentration of wealth	balance	redistribution of wealth
United States	Mutually-Assured Destruction	Russia
work	balance	life
being inside	balance	being outside