You know, if folks didn't feel like they had to appeal to increasingly extreme positions in order to maintain audience size (because of other censorship), maybe

You know, if folks didn't feel like they had to appeal to increasingly extreme positions in order to maintain audience size (because of other censorship), maybe those positions wouldn't get so much air time. Additionally, having them out in the open like that lets sane people like you and I go over and point out their silliness. The current approach just allows it to fester.