What that video doesn't tell you is that, sometimes, partisan division is a good thing.
I contend that overall, both parties were once very conservative and that was a reflection of how conservative the US as a whole was.
Now, over the last 2 decades, we've seen:
- Democrats absorb the best qualities of the Republican platform.
- While Republicans have desperately shifted right and appealed to ignorance and bigotry for a lack of substance, thereby becoming the "Anti-Dems."
- Meanwhile Democrats have slowly began adopting progressives ideas unheard of just 15-20-years-ago.
This scares Republicans more than anything. They're feeling their grip on the national narrative slipping. The bOtH sIDeS rhetoric is finally beginning to lose its effectiveness.
So look at this not with the negative connotations of partisan division, but the truth separating itself from the muddied waters of ignorance.