The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'

A common refrain you'll see splattered across the soggy-ass U.S. press is that the real problem in modern America is that we're increasingly "polarized." That we're suffering from an escalation of "partisan tribalism" of unknown origin. This ambiguous lament generally pops up among two subsets of people: folks who don't really understand politics or the unique threat of fascism; and folks that don't want to be particularly honest about the real cause of U.S. discord because it might imperil their opportunity to make as much money as possible.This latter sect is well represented across the entirety of U.S. corporate media, from timidly "apolitical" musicians like Ed Sheeran, to the U.S. mainstream press, which loves to seed the narrative that unprecedented levels of U.S. division are a naturally-occurring phenomenon our top sleuths simply can't identify the cause of:whoops I done got polarizedMost of these outlets are unwilling to acknowledge that the primary cause of U.S. discord is…