Reply #34: I agree with you..

[sendero]

.... but don't expect a warm reception here with that observation. There are as many nutty people on the left as there are on the right, that much I will assure you. The difference is that people on the left mean well for "everyone" whereas those on the right often only care about themselves and those like them.

There are elements of life as we know it that are unpleasant and some people think "say no evil" is the best approach. I happen to disagree.

The right has successfully taken some of the more extreme memes of the more liberal among us and shoved them up our collective asses.

And an even more uncomfortable truth is that the right learned dirty politics from the left (the 70's), they just took it to a whole new level. They learned the importance of having the media on your side, and they made it happen. They learned how to take the most strident among us and paint it as the rank and file. I was there and I remember. And really, maybe we learned it from them in the 30s, who knows - I wasn't there.