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I did the same a long time ago. I make it a point to always open-mindedly pay attention to the other side of things (articles, videos, forums) to keep myself grounded, which is why I first participated in this side of The Swarm. But eventually I felt it wasn't worth the aggravation to continually engage in discussions with select people who had no intention of even listening to my point of view. The amount of time I spent triple checking any facts/statistics or writing thought-out posts just for them to be dismissed like the poster hadn't even read it was not worth it anymore. I was met with enough condescension and thinly-veiled insults over time that it just wasn't fun anymore. It seems the Swarm Lounge is just continually shrinking into a smaller and smaller echo chamber at this point.
I suspect that your experience isn't limited to one side of the political spectrum.