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For the first blank the clue is the refusal to accept and the state of denial accepting that the society is in class warfare. So the politicians will criticize the talk about the class warfare. So denigrate fits best here. For besmirch I think that it means damage someone's good reputation we don't know if the talk of the class warfare has a good reputation. For the second blank we can simply use balkanized because it means that divided into hostile groups, we don't know if they are politicized or not.

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