Politics has gotten too polarized

Over the past couple of years politics has gotten too polarized, similar to what has happened in the USA - society has as well, but not nearly as badly as politics. But now, since the government was recently formed, it has gone way overboard. There is no longer anything subjectively good or bad, issues are no longer independent of who promotes them. 

If the Coalition wants a law passed, the Opposition will oppose it even if it is something they want and have always wanted, and even if it is bad for them in the future to have voted against, they still will. 

And if the Opposition wants a law passed, the Coalition parties will vote against it, even if it is something they want and would normally support.

Just today the Coalition wanted to pass a law to decriminalize marijuana. This was a process started by the Likud, but they refused to back it now because it was being pushed by Yamina and the government. The Opposition wanted to pass a law providing funding for the families of the Meron victims who need mental health care for the trauma they suffered, but the Coalition parties refused to support it.

Neither of these should be coalition/opposition issues. These should be just decisions made based on what you think is good for the country. If the Likud thought marijuana should be decriminalized, they should have supported it. Votes like this will come back to bite them later. Providing assistance and funding to the families of the Meron victims should not be political - they do support it and supported it int he past, but voted against it because the Opposition proposed it (though surely they will say they are going to pass their own version of it that is better)...

And there are plenty of other votes that already happened and that will happen that are going to be political fights when there is no need to be. There are enough issues for them to fight about in which there are actual significant differences between them, but on the issues that are more or less consensus it is painful to see the polarization deepening.

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