Very good, Bill. I agree. I use a lot of '......'s as in a conversational phrasing. Some people don't 'get it'....also, I employ satire, cynicism, and double en-tender/humor. I've been told that sometimes ruffle feathers...good! Because often that gets people to think outside the box..in fact, sometimes it might even get people to think at all!..instead of parroting popular unthinking nonsense!
This whole divisive right wing/left wing garbage has ingrained a whole lot of folks with a contrived hostility towards each other, which is nothing more than the product of targeted propaganda...and most all of it either distorted or downright lies! ...but it definitely has cause people to think overtime, in diminished capacities!!! A lot of thinking, but never learning anything. This is primarily caused by the perpetrators of the propaganda telling people 'what' to think, instead of 'how' to think....and think objectively! People have become lazy 'thinkers', and stick to what is considered 'correct' by the party line, but incorrect when it is held up to reality!
..as a result, 'liberals' today are more like the hard nosed supporters of say the Nixon establishment of yesteryear...and more closed minded to any outside, yet enlightening thoughts or concepts, out of fear that it is going to subvert their little bubble of safe, bullshit thinking!!!
This is stupidity on a mass level.
Likewise, 'conservatives' sound more like the 'liberals' did years ago. White is black, black is white, right is wrong, wrong is right type of mentality. Morals are completely out the window...as long as 'our side' wins!...even if 'winning' means losing your liberties and freedom!
Liberals used to be the ones for peace...but threaten violence if their 'candidate' isn't re-elected. Conservatives want smaller government, like the 'liberals' of years passed wanted...Meanwhile, back at the ranch, no matter who is elected into power, while everyone is bickering over petty issues, and the persons in office, the machine is slowly and surely grinding away at everything that both sides hold sacred and take for granted!
An example: Bush ushers in the 'Patriot Act' Conservatives applaud and the liberals object, the same 'Patriot Act' that Joe Biden was the author of in the mid 90's....and that Obama implements even further with the NDAA..now the liberals applaud...because it was Obama that ran it through! WHAT????
Liberals are pissed at 'Citizens United'....as long as that doesn't include union's contributions!..WHAT????
This administration is so far removed from the 'liberal' ideal that one wonders and scratches his head at what the hell are the 'libs' thinking of!....BUT..because he is black..or half black, the liberals THINK that because he was voted into office, that 'liberalism' has come a long way...and "Oh Boy, we made progress!"...and "because I voted for him, I must be REALLY progressive now!" ...Nonsense!
now the country is about to over-re-act the other way...and think things are going to 'straighten out'...nonsense!!

As long as people's senses are dulled to abandon objective impartiality, and have that replaced with the attention span of a mayfly, we will get this kind of 'Leadership'(read: 'Dictatorship') that we've been getting...and the freedoms and liberties we grew up with, and afforded us the right to criticize, or even comment on the ills that plague our society and government, will be gone too! Note, how even the censorship goes on in here, if it doesn't go along with the 'party line'. (NOTE: it has gotten a LOT better...but their are those who would silence a dissenter of the programmed so-called liberal thought patterns, than to consider a wider point of view!

OK...enough for now.....another tactic is to say 'it was too long to follow', therefor made no sense!

Regards!!

GfS