"Each side is convinced that the other is evil or sick and wants to destroy society." Yeah, each side claims to believe this. Please don't tell me you believe that both have equally valid points. Are both left and right trying to destroy democracy? "the idea that we can reach each other and compromise with each other has fallen so far out of fashion. " It is not that it has fallen out of fashion. Rather, it has become absurd. I sure as hell don't want anything conservatives are selling because it's all vile, and for them, there is no distinction between compromise and betrayal, See "RINO."