Is "slightly left of center" a euphemism for liberals or actual leftists? All of the vitriol, personal attacks, and hate that I've seen here has been liberals and the like attacking actual leftists. The leftists I've seen have been attacking ideas, and aren't aggressive in doing so (calling an idea stupid is not the same as calling the person with the idea stupid). On the other hand, I've seen liberals attacking people (not ideas), being aggressive ("get fucked" etc), advocating for creating and re-inforcing an echo chamber (you know seeing dissenting opinions is a good thing, right?), trying to push people out of an existing space that they founded, and all-around not having meaningful discussion.

There seems to be something causing people to get irrationably angry and go on the attack when confronted with something that questions their beliefs. It doesn't make sense to me. What causes the aggression? Ego?