Dissent? What dissent? This is essentially a zero-sum game, with no clear loser or winner, what is taken from one side is compensated for by what the other side in turn surrenders, with both sides in on the secret - there shall NEVER be a new equilibrium reached. Thesis and antithesis so evenly balanced that synthesis never occurs. Issues stay alive forever, never settled.
Or so it would seem, as this has been the method of operation for most of the past 30 years, except for a new factor that has been injected just a couple years ago. The ascent of Donald Trump to the Presidency has kicked this apple cart upside down, and there are bruised apples lying all over the street.
Now bruised apples are good for a couple of things, just not for eating out of hand any more. Peel them, slice them up, and cook them down for apple sauce, or squeeze them for their cider content. If nothing else, extract the seeds and scatter them so new apple trees sprout and provide for future generations.
A new Golden Age is about to dawn upon us, and there are those who will not, cannot, recognize it and welcome it in.
Cheers!