I don&#x27;t think there are very many people who actually have &quot;no problem&quot; with torture, and even fewer who have &quot;no qualms&quot; about abortion. It&#x27;s just a question of whether they should be legal or not (I&#x27;m &quot;no exceptions&quot; for torture, but not abortion, FYI).<p>And the reason why we should be less polarized, politically, is because there are a large number of important issues that can be solved, and need to be solved, even if we can never come to agreement on others. The way politics is being managed in the U.S. is basically an &quot;all or nothing&quot; grab bag on every single issue, with no chance for compromise, and that just leads to hours of pointless rhetoric and gridlock while the problems just get worse.<p>IMO, one of the parties is a worse offender than the other, but it really only takes one side being intractable to ensure nothing gets done the way the U.S. government is set up.