As I am not left wing, simply not Republican, I've never understood why Fox News and political provocatours needed to lie about the magnitude of the problems on the border during Biden's presidency, except and unless they wanted to create fear via propaganda. The economy was a much better angle. I value intellectual honesty.

Edit: and to add, one thing that Fascists in Germany did was to turn their political rivals into boogeyman. Simultaneously weak and strong. Lacking morality.

I guarantee you folks on the left have strong morals and standards. As do folks on the right. Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized. I use 'you' here in the royal sense, I don't know you from Peter or Paul. I only know what you said in your comment.

Having lived in places where I was a stranger, I've found people generally want similar things, usually found on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.