Margaret Woolley Busse: Don’t let them divide us

Serious people are sincerely asking a question that, even a few months ago, I never thought imaginable: “Is America so polarized that we just need to divide into two countries?”In 2018, I ran for state Senate in Massachusetts on a platform of bringing disparate people together around common goals; it was a message I felt passionately about and felt was sorely needed then. Two years later, that message seems almost quaint.Increasingly, people are abandoning notions like common ground