Absolutely I think polarisation comes from both sides. You are thinking in terms of party politics though, I'm not. It isn't as a result of right wingers wanting to divide us all. It's as a result of changes in the way we communicate.
My issues with the tone of the debate aren't anything to do with you that's just a general comment. Not on this thread. On the level of debate we have these days generally. I'm not making any personal comment or insult there.
All I see happening here is Godwin's law.
Politics lead to that polarisation though and the divisional rhetoric that the far-right feed off is only coming from one place. Society feeds off that, dog-whistles embolden racists, blaming others for issues causes resentment towards them and again only one side (politically) is doing that. We are in this position because of the tactics employed by politicians so whilst yes party politics is not solely to blame it is 90% of the reason because, without that emboldening from the government for people with fringe views, we wouldn't be seeing this level of division and partisanship we see now.
Nazism is in essence extreme nationalism, please answer me this, has that been on the rise since Brexit?
if you agree it has can you honestly say that is the fault of both sides?
We can disagree and I suspect do on many things, but to say both sides are as bad as each other I think is disingenuous and just gives justification to those who want to see our country devolve into a far-right cess pit, sadly, on their part mostly out of ignorance to the truth of what is happening politically.
Forms of communication change, Napoleon changed the way propaganda was used because it came at a time of new media, the way he utilised it and the strategies he employed are more or less the same as what we see in modern politics. How people communicate can help send a message quicker and give more options to spread said message, but it doesn't change the fundamental nature of what they are trying to achieve.
This is a calculated strategy, it is the same tactics on both sides of the Atlantic, as I mentioned previously on another thread Trump and Boris used the same election advisor and have numerous political ties (most notably Russian money), the far-right is organised and will do anything for power, Boris and his fawning front bench are an existential threat to our democracy in my opinion. To say Labour and left voters are the same as far-right is demonstrably incorrect though (the far-left is a different matter and I believe that anyone with far=right or left ideology are a danger to society because of their vision of how the world should be is not in line with those of us in or either side of the middle.