I will give you an example: gun control. Wait what?! Doesn't one side want to take the guns away? Doesn't the other side want teachers with guns in schools? W

I will give you an example: gun control. Wait what?! Doesn't one side want to take the guns away? Doesn't the other side want teachers with guns in schools? Well, it turns out the majority of Americans not only agree on the need for better gun controls, they actually agree overwhelmingly on certain specific controls as well. It's a classic wedge issue though, and FUD is deployed to drive that wedge between both sides which prevents most major cooperation on the matter. Unless there is a crisis, and then both sides will make an easy sacrifice to look like they are doing something. Like bump stocks. Nobody really gives AF about bump stocks, so they banned them.