This has probably been asked a bunch here. Maybe it's a stupid question but I am curious.
With the division in this country can we all see eye-to-eye on certain things? Can we find common ground? Can we get along without screaming at each other and have a healthy conversation? Are people willing to compromise anything?
I'm not accusing anybody here of being this way. I'm just asking in general.
No. The left sees the right as evil. No matter what the right say or do its wrong or bad, even if its the same actions.
Unless the left comes back to the center, it's over in America. Peaceful divorce will eventually have to be discussed.
It wasn't always like this. Was a time when there were a lot of Bluedog Democrats & Rockefeller Republicans. I'm no moderate but there was value in the 2 parties being capable of backing down when they made mistakes. Today, the stakes always seem "too high" for that.
This discussion often centers on media formats. In the 90s, it was talk radio. In the 00s, cable news. Today, social media. Even as new media replaces the old, we keep getting more polarized. So it's probably something else.
IMO it goes back to 1969:
https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/piroth.htm
TLDR-the McGovern-Fraser Commission made the Democratic Party more (small d) democratic. GOP followed suit. This allowed the activist wings to take over & they don't care about governance. Something to keep in mind when you hear talk of scrapping the Electoral College.