Thank you @siand and @Hailstrom for your comments. I appreciate the time you took to share your thoughts and I think what you both say is very true and potent. I really respect that you both strive to understand what other people believe and want to have that discussion.
I also wish we could have more meaningful political discourse online. That would be really great. Especially because we have the opportunity to have conversations with people all around the world and get a variety of viewpoints that we may not have otherwise thought of because our societies have experienced different historical situations.
There is definitely something to be said about the fact that answers become long and rambling, but I wonder if what seems to be a long answer would not have been seen to be so a few decades ago and that with the advent of the internet and such instantaneous communication, that our ability to focus on something longer than 280 characters has been seriously infringed on. There’s this idea now that we must reply right away, instead of taking the time to consider and think about what has been presented then present something of our own in a longer, but more thoughtfully well rounded way. I think we lose that with the internet at times. Not to mention that people these days are so busy, and their attention is so fragmented, that it becomes almost fashionable to “TLDR” and move on without bothering.
The comments about Facebook and feeling like others would judge us or not be interested really hit home for me. I spent about three months on Facebook before I decided it wasn’t for me. I wasn’t interested in sharing memes, I didn’t like having news articles shoved in front of me that I could easily prove were simply sensationally written or down right wrong, and I don’t want to share pictures of myself and my life with a million strangers. Facebook, Twitter, etc., really only shows tiny snapshots of who people are and all those people who are friended to you will make the judgement about who you are by looking at those snapshots in the same way that they will determine if a news article shared is good or bad by just reading the headline and never actually reading the story. Ten years ago it would seem almost ridiculous to care what anyone online thought of what you posted beyond wanting likes, but now it can literally lose you your family, friends, job, and–if you live in the wrong area of the country–you could be putting yourself in literal danger. And all because people are so attached to something that they have only surface knowledge of.
The anger and the hate is so palpable. It’s a fire being fed by the logs of media lies on both sides of the aisle of political thought. It’s true that it’s not always easy to understand the position of other people, especially when the subjects are so emotionally charged. But I think that there is a very respectable maturity in being able to control those intense emotions, listen, and try to understand.
Well, as you can see, I am very ‘long winded’ 
I am always interested in having a deeper and more meaningful discussion about these things. If you’re interested, you’re always welcome to DM me, but be warned you will get very long return messages. 
