I read this morning that, according to a study, Rs and Ds are not measurably more supportive of the party to which they belong as compared to a decade ago, but despise the "other side" considerably more. I've seen similar studies that suggest that partisans are much less likely than before to have friends or otherwise socialize with folks on the other side.
It seems we tend to view millions of our fellow citizens as the implacable enemy.
I listened to Camile Paglia and Jordan Peterson (Canadian) discussing education.
Higher education consists increasingly as one sided only propaganda and indoctrination.
Gender fluidity is just one insane aspect of the new world view our younger people are subjected to.
In the 1960s the Free Speech Movement sought to give people options. Today the equivalent movement seeks to have only one option.
The one option would have a college professor fired, if he/she said a transgender could never truly be a "woman."
Or if he/she said there is not solid evidence of man-made globull warming.
Or that islam is not really so much a relgion, as a political system based on violence.
Or that capitalism is the best economic system, for giving the most to the widest number of people.
Or that Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba etc. should be held as real world examples of socialism/communism end states.
On this very site, I have nticed so-called "conservatives," using the language of the liberal education establishment (e.g. calling people Nazis and racists if they don't swallow the entire newthink vocabulary of campuses).