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Blame the algorithms.
They intentionally defy normal human social behavior to pit you against people you're more likely to disagree with in a major irreconcilable way, prompting people to polarize as potential middle grounders are pushed in one direction or the other through constantly being fed the absolute most aggressive examples of "the other side" that are currently active.
It's like video game matchmaking but the slurs actually rank you up.
In normal human interaction you'd be able to just write the crazies off and stop talking to them, social media is your boundary hating aunt who refuses to accept you have a right to go NC over irreconcilable differences and keeps trying to force reconciliation at every family event despite neither of you having any want for communicating with the other, then acts shocked and horrified when actually succeeding in forcing a conversation just leads to another blow up because some people are just better off not speaking.
Also there are bots going around posing as human users with ridiculous opinions. And there are so many of them, those ridiculous opinions can get upvoted and look popular.
Aren't you a "free market capitalist" conservative libertarian that argues on socialist/leftist communities? Are you seriously surprised that you go on a predominantly leftist/left-leaning site and see leftist opinions being upvoted more and right-wing conspiracy nutjob comments being downvoted more?