"You can’t disagree with anyone these days without being accused of being fearful or hateful of something or someone."

I don't think that people who are non-political or on the right have this problem, at least to such a degree. A lot of the workers in particular actually take that freedom stuff seriously. Good manners and honesty is enough for them. If someone is serious about their moral purity bullshit, they simply can't be friends with people who are not, and that is most people.