At the risk of getting banned, I'm just going to address the elephant in the room and say that frankly both in terms of the state of the West and the state of the internet in general, we are in a cold war Mexican standoff, if peace and civility was ever an option when it comes to politics, I'm 99% sure that time passed a long time ago. I mean just on this site alone how many different political factions are here? At this point I don't see what debating will really do at this point. Considering the lines are pretty much already drawn.
That being said, considering that the biggest majority here seem to think the primary purpose of this site is for the politics, my opinion is at best overruled. I just don't think anyone should be surprised when there are times when things get verbally ugly.
It's not just (presumably by your post) America that has fractured online and offline -- in the UK, we're at each other's throats due to the Pandemic's handling (Johnson and the rest of the MPs are lucky they're not being lynched by the UK population and strung up by a lamp-post), Sturgeon being so mentally deficient that even her fellow Scots think she's fucking nuttier than Nutella, and Brexit's overall bungling and the EU's desperation. In Australia and New Zealand, the Left is pretty much in control of their governments -- the idiot Aussie PM actually walked into their parliament wearing a burka to show "solidarity", for fuck's sake.
Let's not even mention the batshit insanity going on in Europe and Sweden (amusingly enough, Swedish men are looking at more feminine Asian women now, which is pissing off the Swedish women because,
shocker, men aren't into masculine, batshit crazy feminists with blue hair!).
Western civilization has let the rot set in so much that the foundation itself is eroding -- no, I'm not talking about religion being a cure-all like I've seen many tout, but common sense and decency has been thrown out the window for zealotry and bigotry in most things, for most things.
"No, I'm not interested in dating a woman that has been sleeping around with a new guy/girl every two or three days since her teens. Yes, if you can call that "slut-shaming", then I am slut-shaming her. No, I don't have some odd, pathological urge to look for virgins-until-married women or "good, Christian women", just one that isn't a whore that sells for free and possesses common sense."
"I'm pro-choice to an extent--"
"BABY-KILLER! MURDERER!"
"Ah, so you're fine with women sleeping around constantly and being "in tune" with their liberated sexuality. Good choice, friend! Let the tits flow free!"
"Um..."
"You can't criticize X, Y, or Z because that'd mean you're an ist, a phobe, or am ism!"
"Uh, you do realize the Black, Muslim dude shot that cop in the face, right? And that White, Christian dude beat that lesbian sister of his to death? They both committed terrible crimes as
people, not because they're X, Y, or Z."
"RACIST! SEXIST! RELIGIONPHOBE!"
[the above is especially ironic given the Left's general attitude towards religion that isn't Islam/useful cat's paws]
"I'm actually Center-Right--"
"Lies! There is no Center! If you're further Right than us Leftards, you're a Nazi. And it's perfectly fine to destroy the lives of Nazis as they're social cancer. Sieg Heil, Comrade!"
"...You do know how hypocritical you all sound now, right?"
In America at least, it's getting to the point where a Second Civil War may need to happen to literally save Western civilization as a whole by giving these nuts a well-deserved boot to the head, and we're already starting to see signs of it -- balkanization of States and individual settlements, Left and Right-aligned mobs and organizations actively attacking one another, et cetera.
The next ten, maybe twenty years are going to be "make or break", I feel.