Much great insight here, but let's not conflate the professional lefties with the tried and true on the front lines. I'm centrist. The political compass test plots me in the middle of the lower left quadrant. I leave this comment on behalf of people like my dear friend since 1986, Pamela Busch, who writes on Medium occasionally (her piece yesterday on the Israel/Gaza/Hamas tragedy was brilliant and spoken from her compassion https://pamela-busch.medium.com/not-in-our-name-d65e6a131210)