political_funny (not really).md

Something that I dislike is that how you have people on the far side of political spectrums go "It's Us vs. Them" and refusing to associate with anyone who isn't politically like minded, so the point they may even shove out those who are centristic in view. (I've seen people claim "Centrists want to find a middle ground between <extreme stance 1> and <extreme stance 2>", like say, between "equal rights" and "slavery")
It leads to people who aren't like this to become suspicious of associating with anyone who is on that side.

For example:
Let's say Side A has few members who are far sided and shun anyone who doesn't agree with them. Then you have some members who are Side B who have differing views, but are level headed and respect other's opinions. (Respect != agree, important distinction here!)
The far sided Side A members see these Side B members show up to a place, and tell Side B "We don't want you here, we don't like <insert generic far sided opposing accusation>". Side B members, not wanting to deal with this, just leave, and shrug it off.
Eventually, the Side B members encounter this again, and they start to think "Huh, are all of Side A like this? They don't seem to like us, I think we should avoid them.", and Side B starts avoiding side A members.
Eventually, a level headed side A member shows up to the side B members. The side A person doesn't know that the side B members have the side B opinion, but the side B members see that they have a flag or slogan that side B. They become dismissive of the side A person, who leaves because they don't feel welcome.
This eventually loops until the level headed side A/B members start to feel like each side wants nothing to do with each other, and begin to exclude each other from their circles, and the previously level headed side A/B members become far sided political believers due to the far sided people on their political spectrum saying "We accept you, even though they dont!".