We are our best selves when out in the world, doing concrete good things for actual people. Helping with cross country meets, church picnics, community clean up, whatever. Americans are helpers by nature. We are volunteers.
It’s really hard to hate someone who is right in front of you. It takes practice and determination for otherwise psychologically normal people.
It would not be right to say Republicans are innocent in all this hyperpartisanship. It always takes two to tango. But we are not the ones going into clinical hyperarousal every time someone disagrees with us. We are not the ones who throw ridiculous and completely unwarranted names at people. This is a fact.
Still, the two groups spending time together, mixed, focused on a shared objective: all good.
What use anyone can make of this observation, I don’t know. But here it is.