Reason why I never read anything marked "Opinion" in the newspaper #86,548,279,631:
This person is one of the 'conservative' OpEd-ers in my local paper, and she never fails to come up with weird binaries like this.
People like her (special mention to Bret Stephens in the NYT) are so high on their own supply that they think their views are important and don't realise that they're only being paid to write nonsense that makes readers mad.