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> there's a massive portion of America that, per their believe foundation, disagrees with the policies they are putting in place. We live in a Democracy; the only "right" way forward is the one we all agree with, and we can't agree on anything right now.

I mostly agree. Especially that the speed with which progressive policies have been adapted has alienated a lot of people. The same has happened with conservatives trying to roll back some of these policies alienating the progressives. This has weakened faith in democracy, which is rather bad.

My conclusion is that broad consensus and middle ground needs to be found. This requires having debate that has some good-faith. And requires some amount of empathy for the opposing side. How America could get back to that is hard.

I am not sure whether more state-authority would help that much. These fundamental disagreements also exists within states, and both sides care a lot about people outside their state. Democrats in California would not accept banning abortion in Arkansas. Nor would republicans in Texas be happy if Oregon bans firearm ownership. In fact, I fear that either case happening would only drive the polarization.

It would let either party vilify and generalize their opponents based on the in their view horrible things done by those parties in their states.