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You're over 250 years old?
From my studying of history American politics have been "us" vs "them" since George Washington stepped down after two terms.
It was even before that. Washington had a rough second term thanks to "us" is "them".
https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-visualization
This would be the context I suspect was in that comment. I'm of the 40-some crowd and even I recall things being a lot more give and take in the past. In the last decade or two it has gotten to a point where it's almost pointless to call a vote, just count the D/R ratio in a chamber and you have the result.