When my brother and I were kids and would often fight - who am I kidding, we still do - my parents had a strategy.
Regardless of who was in the wrong (which was never me, in my opinion), my brother and I had to sit together and talk it out until we came out holding hands.
We always decided that pretending to make up was better than sitting in time out, so we would agree to disagree and emerge imminently. We thought we were outsmarting our parents by doing this...but in fact, in worked every time, because by the time we came out, we didn't even remember what we were fighting about in the first place.
Now, I'm not saying that Democrats and Republicans should have a big hand-holding orgy, but perhaps the incentives on each side have to be intensified to get over this ridiculous fight. No one wants to be stuck in time out.
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