Oh, I agree with you most enthusiastically about the Bush administration's uses of fear and hatred to manipulate the electorate, Ron, and I'm equally disgusted with it.

What I would rather see you do, though, is attack pdq's argument than attack him personally, if you see what I mean. What use does it serve to use superficially polite but at the same time very sarcastic and demeaning language to insult the intelligence and character of another person with whom you disagree about some political issue?

And if they have used strong language on you....doesn't that give you a certain delight in establishing your utter superiority to them? I get the impression that it does. I think you really enjoy it. It gives you a chance to respond by treating them in an equally nasty way...but much more subtly, without any bad words, which shows how great you are and what a useless piece of crap they are... ;-)

Without such people in the world, Ron, people who perhaps lack your and my urbane way of expressing ourselves, I think you might not get to have so much fun in a certain respect...it's nice to have someone less articulate than oneself to look down on, after all, isn't it? You know, I think we all tend to do that at times. We all become bullies at times, specially on the Net, because it's safe. We wouldn't do it nearly so casually in 3-D life. Too risky!

But I'm just theorizing...