People will always have social groups that can be exploited to sow discord. Like I said, my personal solution was to stop paying attention to social media altog

People will always have social groups that can be exploited to sow discord. Like I said, my personal solution was to stop paying attention to social media altogether, but that obviously won't happen for everyone. While you blame the "brainwashed", I blame the executives and workers at the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, et al. They know their platform is being exploited to rile up anger but it brings them the sweet ad dollars so they don't care. They can even feel better and feign some self-righteousness by blaming the "brainwashed" instead of the platforms they oversee...very difficult to get them to admit to the problem when their financial interest depends on it.