By STEVE ERKENBRACK Many of us bask in the comfort of one or two media silos, being told things with a slant we already believe and â just as importantly â not being told things that clash with that narrative. These feeds tilt both left and right. Some media outlets occasionally add a subtext that the extremes on the other side want to destroy America as we know it, leading fine people to fierce polarization. Our nation has been through intense conflict before, sometimes rising to rage, but this is unprecedented. Even in the depths and divisions of the Great Depression and the New Deal of the 1940s, or the civil rights conflicts and Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the issues concerned a different vision for the country â admittedly very different â but not the assertion that the other side wanted to destroy America.