Your premise denies free will. No one is forced to be a statist/leftist. This is a choice that people make. Were you coerced/ duped into a conservative stance? Probably not. I’m guessing that you like me arrived at your philosophy based on reason and facts.
Likewise the leftists use reason as well. It’s just that their criteria are different. We see individual freedom as a cornerstone of life. They regard individual freedom as an evil to be destroyed so that they can direct every one of our actions. We wish to be left in peace to pursue our destiny and want to allow others to do the same. The left wants to impose their values on us by force. Hence all of the leftist violence. Can you say crystalnacht?
These people are our enemy by their own choice. They have access to the same information we do, but what we see as evil they see as desirable.
You cannot reason with them. You cannot bargain with them. There is no middle ground because our way of life and the way of life they want to force on us are diametrically opposed. They must be destroyed politically (at least). Or they will destroy us
Unfortunately, unlike those on the Left too many "normal" Americans truly don't want to consider that their fellow citizens on the Left hate them and that their ideas and plans -- despite the purported "fairness" and "compassion" of them -- are evil. The depth of the Left's hatred of patriotic Americans of our our Republic just hasn't "hit home" -- yet.
I’m not saying the left doesn’t exist as an ideological group.
What I’m saying is antifa and blm are not organic. They are paid to do what they do.
The vast majority of democrat voters will reject everything they thought they believed when they find out that their political leaders derive power from committing crimes these voters knew nothing about.
The progressivist agenda to control can only be advanced through deception. There is no other way, because those at the top are not intelligent enough to choose a better way of doing things.
As for who our enemies are—think about this. In the American Revolution, only a third or less of colonists were in favor of booting the British. The British could have won if they had come up with the idea to make the two thirds and the one third fight against each other. This is what the deep state is trying to do now with liberals and conservatives, and you’re making the mistake of falling for it.