A closer look
Humans fiercely view members of their own specific social group as vastly diverse and beautifully unique, while casually assuming everyone in opposing groups are completely identical clones, a dangerous bias called out-group homogeneity. If you belong to a specific political party, you instantly recognize the nuanced spectrum of brilliant thoughts within your ranks, but you assume the rival party is entirely composed of mindless drones sharing a single collective brain cell. We naturally preserve our cognitive processing power by aggressively stereotyping literally anyone who does not sit at our specific lunch table. This basic survival mechanism from the stone age is precisely why internet arguments fundamentally never work and always devolve into shouting matches against imaginary caricatures. We are hopelessly trapped in a deeply tribal mentality, wildly celebrating our own complex individuality while stubbornly refusing to grant that exact same courtesy to our neighbors!
