You stated it with the ad hominem attacks and the nastiness

Where? The harshest thing I said was asking you to actually read my comments.

And I'm going to do it again here because you seem to just be making up things that I haven't written.

just because of what you assumed I believed rather than actually what I believe.

Buddy I do not want to hear that from you, after you just spat a rant at me about what leftists apparently believe.

This is what I mean, discourse is dead.

The discourse is dead because you aren't reading what is written before responding.

I got dog piled for saying I’m less leftist than when I was younger, which is a cardinal sin in threads like this.

Criticism isn't dogpiling. And exactly what did you expect? You responded to me in the first place with a message implying that leftists lack nuance and pragmatism.

The hell did you want? A pat on the back and a cookie? You picked an argument and you found it.

Because people see things in black and white they think you’re basically Trump if you say something like that.

Why is every message of yours an accusation of a lack of critical reasoning. Like buddy, people disagree with you. It doesn't mean we're incapable of critical thinking.

Maybe you should step out of your echo chamber and consider perspectives other than your own for once.