While I would agree both sides have polarized with the advent of social media only the right has gone of into full cloud ####oo land at its edges, the left's extreme hasn't moved at all strangely, there is still a small portion of mostly younger extreme left wingers that think the Government should be overthrown, but in a polite nice way that's LGBT and minority inclusive, and in their mind this will happen in some magical possibly non violent way by the whole of society suddenly realizing that socialism is the only way foward, that extreme has always been out there, pretty much always had the same belief, if anything these days they are less radical and influential on left wing thought than they were in the 50's and 60's.
The right wing is the complete opposite, a right winger of the Goldwater/Nixon era wouldn't recognise the insane kooks that shill on Fox news and their followers as right wing at all, I suspect its because the right wing trends towards the more poorly educated and frankly they are less thoughtful about their ideology and so more easily conned.
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