If you have recently witnessed an instance of intolerant contempt, the telltale symptom of our increasingly polarized society, you may find yourself wondering, “Why can’t we all just get along?

I don’t know. … So I don’t know what’s happened, or if it’s just the electorate is that polarized. And some of it may be that voters in the state who lean Republican, because it’s so ...

We now have a polarized two-party system, like the United States. And unlike Canadian federal politics, where Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois and Greens compete for votes.