I think I went over that "mutually exclusive" thing quite clearly in the last paragraph of that post.
Whatever place we are today in terms of state control and loss of individual choices and liberties, it is obviously still not enough for many people, and there is no evidence that it will ever be enough. For the past fifty years, their ideal American society has always been one that is a bit more statist than whatever they had at the time. This is still true.
The endpoints of any curve are binary by definition. If you keep traveling toward one endpoint, and never stop or reverse, you will eventually get there.
Oh, heck, this is all well-traveled territory for us, almost word-for-word in fact, and I don't think we need to keep belaboring it.
Current Events » in reply to Response to TB's "socialism", (see below)
Vectors. Again.