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This is a microcosm for the greater issue: we have 2 groups of people living in the same country who continue to become further and further alienated from one another. Democracy cannot function when people no longer believe that their opponents are acting in good faith. It’s a prelude to secession or civil war.
And, when there's concrete evidence that a faction has not been acting in good faith for half a century at the least?
Funny, the other side says the exact same thing!
hint hint
"We can disagree and still be friends" only works (and then it is a good sign of political culture) when both sides agree to respect each other as equal citizens and acknowledge to have the same rights. The "friend" relationship is generally perceived as an equal one - in this case it is implied, but might (depending on the context entirely) be anything but that.
I don't know where the pic from OP comes from, but I think it's a pretty clever caption.
It is from the Handmaid's Tale