Kitten:

I learned a long time ago, to never threaten. In my world - we never do that.

That I call ya'll out for ignorant and costly rhetoric - well, that is what goes on here. You and Billy and the golfer and that guy with the cat...you've been rude and insulting to folks who differ from your opinion for a long, long time. If you need me to provide you with examples (which I have already done) just ask.

When I first joined this forum, I thought it was a nice place to discuss honest political opinions. Then I caught on. This is a place where folks just insult one another. Unfortunately, much of this is done out of ignorance and from a decidedly right wing perspective.

You know, I would debate you in a rational and reasonable way...but, for whatever the reason - the moderators have let this place descend to the WWF. Well, in terms of politics - I've never really worried about being the popular guy.

My Tea Party post (several days old) was only resurrected because the post I made today on religion was too informed for you to attack. Kinda pathetic, huh?

You think of the left as weak kneed liberals. Well, based on Obama's performance - that is an easy assumption. But, some of us -while we might support the President as he is our last best choice - well, we remember the costs of real social disruption.

While, I have disassociated myself from the hardcore left years ago - I know what it is capable of. It is the same kind of horror that the hard core right (remember Oklahoma?) has demonstrated. Smug and self-satisfied comments will not protect you or me.

I love London - I used to visit it every year. The riots sadden me. But - the rage that comes out from wealth being concentrated in so few hands with a huge number of folks left with no hope of mobility...well, stuff happens.

I love our country - but, I recognize that if we continue on the road we've been on...this country will explode in ways that make the last week in London look like Disney in late September.

You think of me as rude and abusive. I'm the best freaken friend you've got as hubris is a dangerous thing and our country is on the verge of a huge paradigm shift.

My guess is that you and your other pals don't fully understand what I'm saying. It's the same lack of intellect that causes you to resurrect this old post instead of addressing my most recent post.

Read Lenin. Read Marx. Read Mao. Read Marat and pray a Danton will emerge.

We have been so comfortably free for so, so long. Hopeless people are inherently tribal (see my most recent post on religion).

You think I'm rude? I'm honest and you guys - though you might not know it today - are in a remake of "The Wages of Fear."

Harbor