@matt5sean3 IMO that is an ideal to be pursued, not an absolute to be required. Because as I said before, if the republic falls apart and fascists take over while we're trying to figure out how to get everyone to agree then it's all for naught.
That's the thing that I'm most scared of right now: that enough privileged, insulated (mostly white) people would rather sacrifice lives (not their own, of course) in a bloody civil war than vote for Biden. It really upsets me when my friends here in Seattle try to convince people in Ohio not to vote for Biden. Like, yeah, it's easy to stand on principle when it's not your rights and life at risk.