Is it Healthy to Have Such a Large Political Rift in Our Country?

These past couple of years the Democrats and Republicans have created a large political rift between each other causing the ideas of both political parties to be the absolute opposite of each other. For example, the Republicans want more liberty with the rights of guns and the Democrats want to remove that right all together causing strong conflict between the two political parties. I don't believe this is a healthy way to be in charge or to make decisions for the country with such a strong division between the two political parties and the way they bash each other. There should at least be a middle ground for all these ideas or a compromise to prevent the two political parties from splitting completely and possibly start another civil war. What do you think about the political rift we currently? Is there even a political rift? What are some ways we can fix it if there is one?