I mean once you talk about splitting states you are already abandoning the dumb apparent conceit of this movie and moving towards a coherent vision of what a 20xx American civil war would look like, which is a Syrian style disintegration of constant guerilla warfare and block-by-block rule by innumerable religious and ideological militias.
But that’s complicated and depressing and not nearly simple enough a scaffolding to support your “you know, both sides have their extremists, we need more unity” thesis