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[–] IdeologyIsHuman 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is fine, Breitbart isn’t my comfort zone, and its best aspect is being far removed from an echo chamber because I disagree with Breitbart’s key audience on almost everything. They seem unified with me on the most important issue which is their libertarian stance. I’ve figured out that authoritarians are a true fucking nightmare.

Through my years in college, leftist associates would always seem stupefied that I would spend time on sites like WorldNet Daily, Breitbart, InfoWarriors, etc. because they were told all their lives that to be a conservative was to be insane and crazy. Then they said that only the wingnuts wanted to control you. What really happened all this time is that a cultural divide was being formed to keep millions of people afraid to engage each other in honest dialogue.

Sure, there are a lot of crazy people out there. But most people are reasonable, and if you catch them when they aren't angry and give them respect, they'll hear you out. But your view of them won't be that they are merely wingnuts. You'll grow to see that politics is very rich, tangled, messy and often hard to understand.

This view, however, is nuanced and makes people harder to control with polemics and stereotypes used by the authoritarian left and right in their personal moral crusades of good versus evil. That's why you are either for them, and recite their ideological points correctly, or you are an enemy heathen who needs to be converted or killed.

What do people make of this? have I lost my mind? or am I right to feel disenfranchized with the current state of things?

No, far from losing your mind, you are having it opened to the complexity of the political world. Liberals and conservatives have a lot of common points and culture between them in America, because they are people and want what's best for themselves and their families. It is the individuals who use polemics who benefit from tearing us apart, keeping us at each others' throats so that we never see our common ground.

I have a feeling that this divisiveness is intentional, a kind of balkanization of our country along political lines, but I have no way to prove this.