I don’t look to do the right thing to people who walk around living their entire lives doing the wrong things. Sorry I’m not the “better person” that you speak of. I hear about that guy a lot.... I’ve just personally never met him.
Because he is an ideal. It's like a picture in your mind - it can be deceived or distorted by negative emotions rather quickly. Bad experience with other humans most likely is going to cause this. It's sort of very hard, and maybe not even natural, to completely strive for this, but then we simply mustn't allow ourselves to become the very evil that we dread.
I've always been a punk. I grew up on DK and the Vandals.
I've been a "MetalPunk" 30 years ago. Actually more a Heavy Metal guy, but the other Metalheads from town where still too young and had to be at home before midnight. So I always ventured out together with the Punks - because they didn't care much about what their parents told them LOL. Over time I also liked some of their music, esp. the CrustPunk or extreme Anarcho-Punk from the DDR ("Schleim-Keim" <-- check these out, top notch).
Funny thing is, because of Metal outfit I occasionally ran into trouble with foreign punks - who perceived me as "right-wing" - just by my looks. Ironically, the Nazis shitheads at my town perceived me as "leftist-punk" also because of my clothes.. [!].
This taught me a great lesson early on how perceptive humans/situations can be...
Needless to say, at every weekend there were fistfights between Punks vs Nazis, and Punks vs Punks (when they were drink) and the "folkish Nazis guys" also were into drugs and basically all that shit which they told they were actually against... in the end, it's just arbitrary nonsense, all of it.
Thus, I don't side with anyone anymore and simple try to stay honest to myself, and those which I perceive to have some sort of reason, humanity, intelligence & honesty preserved in their minds.
This "sideing" is what creates conflicts in the first place. The US political show illustrates this quite openly to the world - in stark contrast, the Switzerland form of 2-2-2-1 democracy enforces the opposition to take part in the ruling legislation - which is a problem they have to overcome by compromising. Thus, there isn't that much "blocking". They also frequently ask the people directly ("Volksabstimmung") when it comes to delicate questions....