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Honestly, I think that if your objective is to have a community based on a particular belief, you cannot have honest discussions, as you already know what you would like to talk about and it seems like you are not ready to challenge your ideas.
Let's take a look at one example from your post
I'm assuming you are referring to abortion rights. That is a hard take to take as a universal truth, there are many many countries where that is a guaranteed right, and you are not even considering discussing your belief. How would a honest discussion be held about this topic if you are already calling baby murderers your contestants?
Props to you for wanting to be a better moderator, but a discussion topic requires the other part to be able to freely express their opinions even if you don't like them. That would happen in a discussion community called "politics" or "United States politics", but if your community is called "conservatives", every discussion will be in the form of "conservatives are correct, leftists are murderers and terrorists" (and vice versa in a community called "leftists", what I'm talking about is not limited to conservatives) and as you notice, this polarity and fanatism attracts the worst of both parts, ready to fight and be toxic.
A large part of the problem is that communities that reasonably should be neutral are still skewed insanely left due to the platform largely leaning left. So you go to a community called "politics" and it's nothing but leftists jacking each other off, and then get banned because you dared to criticize them for it.
Those types of communities are generally leftist because the right cannot compete in a free market of ideas such as the internet. That, and conservatives have a habit of bigotry, hate, and personal attacks that get them banned.
Don't expect to stick around in a community with good moderation if you tell people to kill themselves and such.
I can agree with that, but you don't solve the problem by repulsing them and making a right-only community, this polarization will just create two echo chambers where members jack each other off.
That depends on who you call left. If people who call themselves centrists are left to you then that is a bias. I'd say the loudest voices on here are authoritarian liberals. And so a lot of discussion is biased to their favour.