Jerry, I think it's just that our national community has changed and Mudcat reflects it. Like it or not, the great and mighty tolerance of classical liberalism has morphed into narrow political correctness and insistence on classification of people into aggrieved, entitled, and protected classes. The high ground of well-meaning conservatism has also been captured, now it is just Malthusian celebration of wealth and the corporation above the individual and angry rejection of liberal social engineering.

People for some reason keep migrating into one of these two might-as-well-be-armed camps. And the folkies preach to their own choir of activists, bolder and crankier since no one else is listening. And the bluegrassers keep convincing themselves that everything from around here must be good and everything foreign must be bad, and them lefties must be pagans.