pulse: "I love how Americans all turn on each other over politics."
.. Most Americans aren't like that..
It's mainly people that have a "sports fan" mentality and politics is like a team sport for them.. they will only associate with their fellow teammates and will only consume media that praises their team or most often, vilifies the other team.. if the other team fumbles they will taunt and jeer but if their team fumbles it is somehow still the other teams fault...

There is a fairly large portion of our society that realizes it's all really just a dog and pony show. (Or more accurately, a donkey and elephant show)..

So many people are grossly uninformed.. they read a headline and maybe skim the article and form a rock solid, unwavering opinion on the matter, without ever verifying if anything in the article was actually true.. it happens routinely that some 'breaking news' happens and people react, then after a day or a week or however much time passes, the truth comes out and those people that have already made up their minds will refuse to believe the truth now.. it really boils down to them not wanting to admit they were duped..that they believed a lie, and they did so because of hatred. A hatred that is likely unjustified because it is the result of media misrepresentation.

It's really easy to see the results of media bias.. the people that hate Trump for example never watch FOX news and they will say it is "fake news" ..meanwhile the people that love Trump will never watch CNN and they will say it is "fake news" and then they will go to their social media accounts that are all just like minded people blathering away into their respective echo chambers..
Politcal Polarization

quasi: "you've seen some of what we're dealing with."
What a shitty thing to say.
As if your, and only your, viewpoint matters.
But it's a good example of the point I'm trying to make.. too many people are so far one direction or the other that they refuse to even consider that other people are Allowed to have a different viewpoint.. If they say they disagree then they are called an idiot because they've been drinking the koolaid... And if they get angry because they were called an idiot, well now they get called a snowflake.. calling people names because you disagree with them is the exact opposite of helpful.

Have any of you noticed that all people want to do is attack, attack, attack... people will talk shit on Trump and other Republicans day after day and never say a word about all the fucked up Democrats.. if all you want to do is criticize one team and completely ignore all the problems caused by others then you are indeed a blind fool.