Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith, Rachel McAdams as Regina George and Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners in "Mean Girls," released in 2004.

If you haven’t seen “Mean Girls” — and no, I do not mean the dumpster fire of a musical that came out last year — then where the hell have you been for the past two decades? (And can you take me with you?)

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the only legal addictive substance specifically marketed to 13-year-old girls, that probably means you’ve also been sheltered from the hair-scorching hellfire currently engulfing every corner of social media, from Facebook to Instagram: political polarization.

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No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, one thing is undeniable: The gap between us is growing wider and more treacherous by the day.

The fact remains: nobody is winning in the current political climate. And I mean nobody.

What is this, high school? Because lately, our political discourse is starting to look a lot like an early 2000s cafeteria. We’ve all found our little like-minded lunch tables on the........

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