We've lost something in our polarity. Used to be you could be a liberal Republican with bad ideas about taxation or a conservative Democrat who championed social welfare. Now? You're a good guy or a bad guy and we'll figure out which is which depending on what our social media signals tell us to think. You don't hang out in Sand Point unless you're okay with your friends advocating for the dominion of the white race. Thaaaaaat's racist. But legal protections apply to racists, too or else the whole system collapses. Frontline did a profile on Waco. It's pretty clear that the ATF were a bunch of cowboy vigilantes looking to crack skulls and that they celebrated the stereotypes the prepper community (at the time) vilified. They had a massive cultural problem that manifested itself as dead kids and thank fucking god they learned a thing or two by the time of the Bundy ranch.