Reply #21: But there aren't.

[mwb970]

We are being bedeviled and brought down by a minority of a minority of a minority, who are handed a huge megaphone and a platform to stand on and screech self-evident nonsense and enraged gibberish.

Our political discourse is dominated at the moment by a loud, nasty, strident group of right-wing extremists. Extremists are by definition "out of the mainstream", and these awful baggers are way, WAY out of the American mainstream. Their positions and leaders are rejected by 60, 70, 80% of the public. Our craven media puts these vastly outnumbered lunatics front and center every day because controversy draws viewers.