Good post.
Everyone has some form of political opinion.
The vast array of cable news and social media tend to put people in their respective bubbles.
At least those of us who interact on this forum, get exposed to alternative views.
People get confused and wrongly assume, IF you here their view, you'll agree with their argument.
Then, if you fail to agree with them, they endlessly insult and ridicule you.
I still can't understand why people take any counter view as a PERSONAL attack on them.
Context is important:
People take counter views in the real world as personal attacks, because people are personally attacking - looking at protests - recently Anne Coulter spoke at a university - students made a human wall to not let people in. If you wear a Bernie shirt, you can walk around without issue. If you wear a MAGA hat, probably a good chance you'll have some sort of incident.
Here, people take counter views as personal attacks because the liberals on this site are dipshits who only do just that. People like straw, etc will never concede a point and are just here to be assholes
As far as me, I didn't vote Trump or HRC. From what I've seen since his presidency, we've seen a complete degredation of the free press, a very dangerous situation where tech is manipulating data and disguising it as an objective algorithm, radical behavior from the left (antifa) etc, so I'm more and more finding myself defending the Republicans, as I have not seen one legit Democratic front runner who would make things better.