Arguments are not VIOLENCE.
I mean sure, but arguments can lead to violence. If you wanna talk politics and the other dude gets heated over differing opinions, you disengage that person. They aren't worth the time. You dont get in their face and keep pushing the argument. Obviously they aren't there to have a constructive disagreement and neither is the other person in that situation. They are both stuffty people. Don't be a stuffty person.
It would be like walking into a biker bar and saying "Motorcycles are got girls." What would you expect to happen? Them to look at the statistics and try and determine if motorcycles are for girls or not? Or beat the stuff out of you? Sadly, they would probably beat you to an inch of your life but you are also to blame for walking into their bar and saying what you did.
It's not rocket science to have political decency. This is what happens when a two party system gets this polarized, and we aren't helping.
These conversations need to be had, because otherwise both sides will stagnate and become extreme.
Also, the sides don't become more extreme with stagnation, they become more extreme with activity. The more "to their guns" the sides become, the more the split widens.
I agree the conversations must be had, but not like this