The right wing really wants people to believe that everyone else is just as unkind as them. Reaching across the aisle isn't even working, they'll just call you names or sometimes even say things they don't even realize are prejudiced. People live in different worlds these days. One side is just aggressively stripping civil rights, giving the big corporations tax breaks without it helping the people, parroting conspiracy theories, war mongering for Israel when they were just pretending to be anti-war, and telling everyone not to trust the universitys' statistics on what the outcomes of these policies are, and just to make sure nobody on their side cares, they're also discouraging everyone from having empathy for anyone not like them. "Just close your ears, we're making things Great Again." I get that any group will insist that they are correct, but the right wing in the US is just getting so extreme it is too impossible to ignore. I don't even know what to do anymore, I can't reach anyone with blinders on, some people just choose this and tell themselves they aren't supporting hatred with all the flimsy excuses they're given and staying willfully ignorant by mistrusting everyone else.