I don't know that extremists on both far left and far right yelling over each other to drive public policy is a sign of a healthy democracy. Neither of those g

I don't know that extremists on both far left and far right yelling over each other to drive public policy is a sign of a healthy democracy. Neither of those groups naturally represent a majority of people, they're just having an outsized megative impact on society by being loud. While Soviet Union had centralized unidirectional brainwashing, US now has bipolar, decentralized brainwashing. Not quite the same but also not quite that different. If anything it's all those "western values" clashing together in a rather unfortunate way, exposing our society's inability to deal with free speech amplified by technology, corrupt politicians, greedy billionaires, and consolidated media empires. This sucks, and it's not just messy, the whole thing is failing at the seams with no hope in sight.