You're not wrong, but very often those philosophical differences are being masked by lies. I don't want to get into the gory details in this tiny text box, but

You're not wrong, but very often those philosophical differences are being masked by lies. I don't want to get into the gory details in this tiny text box, but any number of current fear based political campaigns use wildly "distorted" facts to bolster their arguments, and most of the time reporters just blindly repeat whatever the person says without attempting to verify it.