[Urbane Guerrilla]

Rich, I do not harbor a deep prejudice against Republicans (nor these Republicans in particular), and you are showing you do. I fault that.

"If you ignore it," you also have the mental equipment to win the war against a stubborn, antidemocracy enemy. For the sin of being antidemocracy, antifreedom, anticapitalist and therefore on all counts anti-human as well, they must either convert from their evil ways or they must die -- as examples if nothing else. They'd do better if they converted into liberal capitalists (c'mon guys, you can charge interest on bank loans, really), which is about the best outcome I can possibly expect, but if they only convert into fertilizer, that's an acceptable second choice. Politics and war are both the art of the possible.

Sure, I'm some kind of fanatic. It mirrors what the other guys are doing -- the first fanatics never seem to consider that their fanaticism will cause a mirroring fanaticism to rise in opposition. Considering the kind of thing I'm standing to oppose, I think I've got the right idea.

Ibram, I work on that enlightenment each and every time I come here. At bottom, it's the one thing I do. The results are varied, and not always encouraging. Some few, unable to impeach me on substance, speciously go after my style. While I understand their motivation here, I do not think it good.