Can the polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. be reversed?

[Pat Mustard]

The answer is easy, take religion out of politics. The sooner the republican party gets rid of the far religious right the sooner we depolarize.

This message brought to you by a republican rural educated baby boomer.

They need to get rid of the racists too. I know there's plenty of overlap, but it's the racism problem that's the worst.

And on the thread title, should we bother trying? Any time we see "there's too much antagonism between Party L and Party R", it's always the more left leaning party which does all the compromising, even in cases (like with Labour in 1997*) where the right wing party is a clapped out Reliant Robin ready for the rubbish dump.

*Far too many people talk of the Tuberculosis Bacilli as if he was some sort of miracle worker, when he is not. Over the course of his three elections he lost over 5 million voters for Labour, in fact even his second election would have been a very close run thing only for the Tories were in the depths of the William Hague, Ian Duncan Smith, Michael Howard bottoming out period. It is largely his fault the Kippers got a foothold, and also that the pig fucker got an absolute majority in 2016 (after some timorous steps to the left Miliband chickened out and ran straight Blairite through the election, despite his rare lurches to the left being the times when he was riding highest in the polls).