You deserve a $30 upvote.
I like the way you think. Feel free to be verbose in articulating your opinions. :-)
Everybody says that to draw an audience, you have to be extreme. That no one wants to listen to a moderate "voice of reason." To quote PT Barnum, "If you want to draw a crowd, start a fight."
Most people are reasonably reasonable. Unfortunately, most people are also reasonably silent. As a result, the only thing we ever hear are the voices of the most extreme, winding things up and tearing things down. After a while, it can be tempting to believe that we are alone in our reasonableness and the whole world has gone mad.
As you can see from the comments section, though, most people are not Far X or Far Y and, if given the chance, have something reasonable to say.
Quill