Politeness comes from social solidarity: it is a consequence of social harmony, not a precursor.  What if the polarization represents actual, fundamental disagreements on politics and, at root, moral axioms?  Being polite hasn&#x27;t done much for the respectable right for the last fifty years.<p>I would rather focus on solutions like secession or federalism that allow groups of people with different and irreconcilable moral axioms to simply leave one another alone to build the social&#x2F;political structures they would prefer.