I sometimes wonder whether people are really more fueled by emotion now than in the past, or whether mass media and then the internet have just made it easier to see.
People have always preferred to rationalize over being rational. Then again, social media and the news industry have objectively driven toward a soundbite culture. It's one of the reasons I prefer HIVE to Twitter and Facebook.
I am philosophically an anarchist because I started poking at the inconsistencies I saw in politics, and wanted to better understand society and economics. I got tired of authoritarians pissing on my back and telling me it was raining, and only that OTHER party wanted to piss on me.