The political divide between the Left and the Right in America (as well as all other Western nations) is growing wider by the day. This should be a major concern to everybody; first of all, because an inability to communicate makes violence inevitable (and we’ve certainly been seeing a growth in intra-American violence lately) and second, because an inability to communicate means an inability to coordinate. The Democrats and the Republicans are not the only actors on the stage: while these two halves of the body politic fight amongst themselves, other interests – foreign, corporate, criminal – can take advantage...