Reply #6: Like shouting into the whirlwind

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But good on Clark for trying, at least. Not a one of these people thinks for a second that any of their bellicose posturing will come back to them in the least way. Now, the overrich, overpampered rattleheads at Fox are surely right about that. Their reckoning, protected as they are by the grace and charity of their opponents, will never come as it should. I no more want to line up clowns such as Gillerman or Huddy against the wall and shoot them as I want to do that to anyone. Knowing this, they're free to spout incredible bullshit about wanting to blow up every last enemy.

But the audience members are in a far different position. As Clark so gently reminded them, it would be they and their children thrown into the hellstorm of the rattleheads' bloodlust. But they don't see it, and they don't appreciate it. "How can you negotiate with people who've stated they want to destroy you?" they whine. "We have to destroy them!" And not for a second does it cross their febrile little minds that their statements are giving rise to the exact same sentiments to people on the so-called other side.

Violence cannot drive out violence. Darkness cannot overcome darkness.