It's not accidental, polarization is a primary goal of authoritarian regimes. This is because it radicalizes loyalists an oppositions.

You what a good example of this was?

GamerGate.

Yes, most of us said: "Fuck you Kotaku"

But a strong number of people literally rejected the idea that Kotaku could do wrong, and declared themselves absolutely devoted to the media. You called them GamerGhazi.

Either way, the polarization from the media attacking it's user-base created loyalists that protected their sales.

Abortion, believe it or not, has the same issue. The rest of the world doesn't see abortion as a major political issue, including Europe. Not because abortion is 100% legal in all cases. Actually, many European countries are as restrictive as Mississippi. The reason people bombed abortion clinics, and have 100,000 person "March For Life" and "Pussy Hat" dueling protests, or people threatening to kill SCOTUS, is all because Roe v. Wade ripped the issue out of political moderation via debate. Declaring a single-size solution turned it into a political football that caused division.

The dichotomy is always designed to support the person offering the dichotomy, whichever choice you make.

It's not accidental, polarization is a primary goal of authoritarian regimes. This is because it radicalizes loyalists an oppositions.

You what a good example of this was?

GamerGate.

Yes, most of us said: "Fuck you Kotaku"

But a strong number of people literally rejected the idea that Kotaku could do wrong, and declared themselves absolutely devoted to the media. You called them GamerGhazi.