I think that everyone has their own point of view on how things are going now days, and that each has both good and bad points to it. There are people in government on both sides who fear the other and what they may bring about. It's a very old conflict at the heart of things. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate & hate leads to suffering. And groups do form on both sides of whatever issue is the point of contention. As I said before my point was that it's easier for a reader to empathize with a single character rather than an extended group, simply because the author can focus more on a representative of a group than they can if they are portraying the effect of the action on a larger group. The more points of view in a given story the more diffuse the tension could be because by time the reader is getting to know one character the story is already meeting another one, so that neither is as developed as they could be. I wish you luck with your novelette though.
