Forgive and forget vs. an eye for an eye, plus interest

If Romney and Obama team up to eat a bag of live puppies during the debates, the only difference in the two parties will be which candidate they think did a better job eating those puppies.  So, this brings me to a conundrum.  How many people on either side believe our differences are resolvable?  I.e., if you don't get 100% your way, will you be miserable for all eternity?  It sounds like most people on both sides will be. 

Romney creates universal health care and he's a hero.  Obama does it and he's a socialist.  Obama gives billions of taxpayer money to bail out rich people and he's a hero.  Romney wants to give the rich a tax break and he's a plutocrat.  Obama says he's a Christian and people call him Muslim.  Romney says he's Mormon - a religion that most Christians looked down on, mistrusted and called a cult for years - and people call him a Christian now because they need to vote for him.  It's all about context.  

This is why George Washington is rolling over in his grave right now.  He warned us against the two party system.  That it would eventually create two equally insane and ridiculously stupid groups who oppose each other with all their strength and can't muster up the courage for bipartisanship.  That's the nature of the human race.  There has to be an Other.  Else we'd have to blame ourselves, right?  Bad things won't happen to me because I'm good.  Good things won't happen to my enemies because they're bad.  Then when bad things happen to us, we rationalize that we too must have failed in some way.  That way we can theoretically be extra good this time around and nothing bad will happen to us again.

Othering is a common and every day occurrence.  I do it every time I laugh watching an idiot hurt themselves on YouTube.  "I couldn't do something that stupid," I say to my computer monitor because I don't think talking to my computer makes me look nuts.  But is that true?  I once pepper sprayed myself.  Would a smart person do that?  I think not. 

So, again, how does everybody else feel?  Do you think the country can ever be patched back together again.  Can you come to tolerate, if not actually give a hoot about your acid tripping hippy or meth addled hillbilly neighbors?  Will your post begin with something like "I'm extremely tolerant and easy to get along with, but they are hate spewing, fear mongering, free loaders who don't deserve to have any rights or freedoms and I can't wait until [insert your candidate here] wins and forces them us all to be [insert your religion or lack thereof here] and fixes the economy by re-distributing the wealth to the [your favorite class]."