If I told you that one political party was more likely to misinterpret COVID risk or police shooting data or almost all forms of risk related data (and therefore suggest inappropriate or actively harmful solutions like abolishing the police), would you guess that they were on the left or the right?

If I told you that there were people who were celebrating the decision to let a biological male beat a female to a pulp in an MMA fight (and were pushing legislation that would lead to more of it), would you guess that they were on the left or on the right?

If I told you that a professor recently said of white people that "we need to take those motherf**kers out" and called all white people "villains" (actually, off the top of my head, I can think of another professor who said something very similar) would you guess that she was on the left or the right?

Again, I'm not interested in debating who is "worse". You say you'd argue that there's no organised "left", but of course there is. It's just not the caricature of the extremists I've laid out here. Just as the "right" isn't all COVID truthers and QAnon believers and J6ers. Most people who would identify as conservative and liberal are actually pretty sane and reasonable. Then you have the fringes of both parties who aren't.

You can play the "their side is worse" game all you like. You might even be right. But know that people on the right are playing exactly the same game. This instinct to caricature and dismiss the views of millions of people is why discourse is in such a mess.