I'm fairly liberal, but the political discussion in the tech-adjacent, tech-related crowds has made me incredibly sympathetic to my Southern relatives' attitude

I'm fairly liberal, but the political discussion in the tech-adjacent, tech-related crowds has made me incredibly sympathetic to my Southern relatives' attitudes towards the mainstream left. It's not fun to be treated as a heretic. There are issues where I find myself to the left of mainstream progressives, but if/when I voice those opinions, I find myself lumped in with the right for simply disagreeing with the talking points from low-rent blogs. Fox News is rightly considered a laughing stock among the left. But imagine if they started a new brand, repackaged for an online, younger, left-leaning crowd. It'd be indistinguishable from dozens of existing high-prominence left leaning news websites. It's killing our ability to productively disagree.