The further you get from the political centre the more lies you encounter.

[Puddleglum]

I disagree entirely. Extremists generally lie to avoid any problems when people challenge their core beleifs rather than looking at them and adjusting them. Extremist groups lie about their own 'side's' atrocities and endlessly complain about the others. We in the centre are actually concerned about what both sides do. We worry about what effect our actions have. We realize that there are often no simple answers -for extremists everything is simple , there are black and white answers and when reality doesn't fit they lie to make it fit.

Take any issue you like that is currently controversial in the US and is polarized between left and right .