It's funny, the same social dynamics played out from different positions leads people to completely polarized positions. For example, the demonizing tone of anti-Hillary people has made me feel much more pro-Hillary (along with actually looking at her life, career and positional stances over time), while the same polarizing cognitive impulse has led anti-Hillary people into a trench of social media us/them clickbait and Trump supporters into a pit so deep the religious ones will fear for their souls and the machismo-cultists will spiral into depression and addiction when he is roundly humiliated in upcoming debates and in November.

People are basically cause-and-effect operated. One gains a certain leverage by knowing that and studying it, but one is never beyond cause and effect. It's a conceit of immortality, that one is immune from the great web by virtue of being "right". All in all, everyone is innocent, everyone guilty, everyone redeemable, some doomed to be socially stigmatized until their demise. The Tao reigns supreme, and it includes everyone and everything, forever, inside and beyond spacetime.