[ithkuil]

> And if you try to make the case that something is exaggerated, you come off as a right wing nut job.

Doesn't it depend on the topic? I mean, remember when right wing news outlets were exaggerating the hordes of migrants invading borders etc and "left wing nut jobs" yelling that people are blowing things out of proportion?

I don't think each if these tactic necessarily belong to one political orientation. It's just a particularly infuriating way humans communicate and deal with verbal conflict.

Nowadays the general level of education is much higher than a century ago, yet there is still a long way to go; hopefully we'll have many more centuries to learn how to build a public discourse more effectively.