OK, that’s it. I’ve had it with the bickering, the squabbling, the are-too-are-nots.

No, I’m not retiring early, so a few of you can go back to cursing.

Especially the guy — and you know who you are — who is going to owe me a Persian roll from Titus Bakery in Lebanon because he bet me that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for president. I said he was wrong.

I prefer cream-filled Persian rolls, by the way.

We, My Fellow Americans, have been sucked into a logic trap.

We have allowed the forces of greed and stupidity, cynicism and arrogance, to kidnap rational discourse.

We’ve fallen for the fallacy that a person is either a conservative or a liberal.

We have allowed political extremists to declare that politics is an “either/or” situation, in which if one does not agree 100 percent with any given position, one is, by definition, evil.

By “political extremists,” I mean anyone who believes — or who claims to believe, which is not the same — that people are either liberals or conservatives.

The idea is so simplistic it is insulting.

More worrisome, it’s dangerous.

We have allowed the maniacs to craft the debate by limiting the conversation to the societal equivalent of an “on-off switch.” Our nation is suffering.

Extremists are concerned only with power, profit and position. Patriotism? Please. To the extreme right, patriotism is a tool, to dismantle the common community and to build a world in which they, and only they, dictate reality. To the extreme left, patriotism is a tainted tactic employed to make the world safe for unfettered capitalism.

Some extreme liberals think the conservative extremists are winning. Some extreme conservatives think the liberal extremists are winning.

I know whose losing: All the rest of us.