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Being called a communist by US conservatives isn't really something worthy of notice, as anything that goes against them is called as such.

That said, with the polarization of political debate, people rabidly defend viewpoints they don't even understand or never thought about rationally. It means you cannot have interesting arguments because you don't share any axioms with the other party, and you have different opinions on basic stuff such as "do poor people deserve to die" or "should gay people be reeducated" or "do we put immigrants in concentration camps", at which point you can only give up and break contact with resignation. Sure, I can interact with people like that on trivial stuff if I have to, but don’t ask me to be overly nice to someone who would rather see me or people I like dead.

[staticelf]

Sure but how many people really share those extreme views? Most of the hate goes to pretty vanilla opinions like "we should lower the amount of immigrants", "education should be free and payed by taxdollars" or similar stuff.