Polarizing/Paralyzing

      Some words that are "poles" apart are yet related, maybe attached, connected at the hip.  I'm thinking of the word "polarizing."  

      Coming across the two together in the same sentence wrapped them up for me :

                                    Polarizing/Paralyzing

What do they share in today's politics?  PUH-lenty.

       The first word produces the second word, and once we are paralyzed,  the population gravitates further towards its poles; hence Paralyzing produces more Polarizing.

       That little slash between them (/) is a teeter-totter, lifting one, then the other, then settling them into a stasis of perpetual accusing eye-stares.