Today, the moment someone expresses a different opinion, we push them away. We reduce them to a label and place them on the opposite side, as if difference itself were a threat. We no longer listen to understand, we listen to respond, to defend a position we believe is final. This habit has spread everywhere, from politics to daily conversations. We’ve grown used to confrontation, not exchange.

Democracy doesn’t rest on agreement but on the ability to speak and disagree without fear. Yet that space is closing. Not because of laws or censorship, but because of our own intolerance. When we stop accepting difference, we stop building together. And without dialogue, democracy becomes empty noise where everyone speaks and no one listens.