Reply #2: Their pathetic, divisive tactics are so transparent these days it's sad.

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No, I take that back; it's not sad, it's amusing--it would be downright hysterical if not for the real people who are going to be burned by the fires of hatred and discrimination these assholes are so intent upon stoking. But you're absolutely right, it isn't worth worrying about. The reality is that those fires are growing weaker and weaker every day, and the rightwingers are running out of coal. As America wakes up and sees the real problems facing us every day, the many quagmires into which the Republicans have drawn us, they're making their very last appeal to the most base and servile elements of human nature, as they are prone to do. Only this time it isn't working, and they know it as well as you or I. The desperation coming off them is so thick you can almost smell it, that acrid-smelling sweat of fear and anxiety.

Excellent writing as always, Plaid Adder...recommended.

Edited for subject-verb agreement--I is very bright, indeed.