A New Post on the Previous Issue: Civility

Since receiving comments in my inbox whose subject line automatically begins with an obscenity is getting a bit old now, I thought I might take the liberty of posting a brief new remark.

The people who have hijacked and nearly destroyed the political process in America take kindness, generosity and civility for weakness and are, therefore, both STUPID and EVIL. These people aren't simply misguided and in need of a little TLC and education – I've never fully bought the old Platonic saw that people never do what they themselves consider wrong but instead are just misguided in their thinking about what's right. Too many members of the American Right loathe multicultural, modern America intensely and obviously want to replace it with a perverted, primitive theocracy or a demented fascist nightmare, or both if possible. "Ignorance, Irrationality, Cruelty and Hate" are their watchwords, and there's no need to be delicate in denouncing this noisy faction or the depraved inhumanity it promotes. The chilly, blasted heath where King Lear rages in madness is a holiday resort compared to the world these morons want us all to live in. We owe them nothing but honest scorn. Foul language is another matter and isn't necessary, in my view.