It really is worth thinking hard about whether left and right would be quite as much at each other’s throats but for certain polarizing figures and bad media habits.
Cui bono?
On the other hand, it really does depend on ultimate actual (not just declared) political aims, whether the divisions have become truly substantial.
If the right aims at God, family, and individual happiness, while the left aims at (e.g.) tearing down power structures...
...or something else equally radically, then, yeah. In that case the left-right acrimony and division *wouldn’t* just be illusory.
But that’s just theory. 75% of Democrats still ultimately want God, family, and individual happiness too, just a different way of getting there.
Of course, the means do matter. But violent revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat *isn’t* a means to advance those real interests of regular folks. It definitely does have different goals.
Bottom line: fighting back against “trolls” who are avowedly trying to destroy the system (one that supports individual liberty) is commendable and doesn’t just feed the need for self-righteousness. Somebody has to do it, even if the likes of @JonahDispatch find it distasteful.
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