@td_dayton, I understand where you're coming from but these topics have a way of popping up, uninvited, as a way to get weird, erroneous and dangerous ideas and memes out there in the public sphere and I like to knock them down when I can. Then, these types of discussions grow.
Like you say, everything is not left or right, fascist or liberal, but one side needs an enemy, being conditioned like Pavlov's dog to believe, behave and react to anything that threatens it's mind hive mentality.
We're living in dangerous times and to blithely go about one's business or hobby is what's called "whistling past the graveyard." I'm sure that music they played when the Titanic went down kept a lot of peoples minds off their fate.
All the best,
Nonoise
