There is comfort in neutrality. Neutrality asks very little of us. We don’t have to pick a side, defend a position or risk being wrong. We can stand somewhere in the middle and say that we understand both sides. Sometimes, that is exactly where we should stand.

A modern-day Gestapo would never happen here, right? The United States lived through World War II and witnessed how Nazi Germany carried out violence against those it deemed racial and political enemies of the state. The United States is supposed to be the land of the free and home of the brave. We are supposed to learn from our history.