Your post today reminds me of a poem, @slowwalker:

If you agree with me
And I agree with you,
Will there not still be
two different points of view?

HEGEL saw this dialectic as a necessary aspect of societal evolution - Thesis gives rise to antithesis until finally evolving toward a synthesis. Then it all begins again.

Marx called it class warfare.

Whatever one calls it, it's a permanent feature of the human condition. We take sides and line up on the left or right, with some in the middle.

A true democracy fosters this process, allows it and nurtures it.

There are no shortcuts to consensus - and the best governments allow the free play of ideas, while respecting the rights of all.

I think democracy is working quite well in Korea, my friend.