Half the users of voat were only posting in fph and thegreatawakening, it didn't die because of that but for naming mossad. Voat never had any "normal people" , 6 years there and i didn't saw a single normie post , the only ones that ever got assblasted were the anorexic cunts in fph.
Now that you mention it democracy was born in several different places and ages but in all cases it was by armed men who considered themselves warriors. If illiterate Balkan invading Slavs of the 5th century could debate a topic but your students can't something is wrong with you as a teacher.
I liked the " interest of people in identity group" .
I think the orthodox leftist approach is the best : The only identity that matters is the class identity, we are working class and all those who aren't working class or try to split the working class into weak, fractured, pointless divisions are enemies of the working class.
Nations with uniformity of ideas lived in mud-huts for 5000 years.
Political science 101 :
socialism + internationalism = communism
socialism + nationalism = national socialism
capitalism + internationalism = liberalism
capitalism + nationalism = fascism
Redditors are consuming insane amounts of corporate products that is a heresy to dislike while defending the borders of their superior medium from outsiders and domestic traitors , any and all threats to their identity are quickly squashed. I wonder where they fall in the political spectrum.
I know it sounds funny but i use gigablast & searx