[Deckard]

It's like there's this great mass of hate out there that – If you'll excuse the icky metaphor – brings to mind some festering boil. And far from shrinking, it's instead been growing steadily bigger and bigger with each year. What's scary is that even the backlash to GWB's presidency didn't reverse it. Yes even something as awful as that! It's just been growing and growing. And when a festering boil gets too big....

Honestly, what's it going to take?

These people seem to be everywhere, and they just seem completely unreceptive to two vitally important things, reason and compassion. You can clearly and concisely rebut their comments, and they'll just come back with macho posturing and nonsense. And these aren't kids; I've been having a back and forth with some guy in his 50s the last few days. Any genuine attempt to point out his errors is met with "well you liberal whiner you just don't understand America" rather than a rebuttal of the point itself. And they don't WANT to learn or to change or to understand or to empathise. It's like there's no heart and very little brain there.

They're freaking zombies, I tell you! Where are they all coming from?