Our hard-charging GUEST tends to jump to conclusions on just about all phases of existence. And he or she seems to love epithets. One of our more Right-leaning folks is fond of calling those who disagree with him "crybaby liberals." GUEST seems to be groping for similar labels, and is currently working the appellation "you True Blues," making a lot of unfounded assumptions about people he or she doesn't know.    Such labels are interesting in that they give a clue as to the mind-set of the person who is fond of using them. It allows him or her to stuff people he (or she) disagrees with into convenient, stereotyped pigeon-holes, thus dismissing anything they have to say. It saves a great deal of thinking.

Grab this, GUEST:   I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Democratic Party. I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of any political party. You assume I am a Democrat, and you are wrong. And you're just as wrong about a lot of people here.

As an independent (not a member of "the Independent Party," I am truly independent), I can communicate meaningfully with all political parties, and since they're all courting independent voters, they tend to listen to them, often more closely than to their own confirmed members. I think a lot of the smarter, more politically astute people here are doing exactly as I am doing.

You're a very angry person, and you're so thoroughly convinced that you are right and everyone else is wrong. You remind me of some of the folks I knew back in the Sixties. For example, the militant pacifist (I knew several of them). They said they believed in non-violence, but often, if you disagreed with them on any issue, they was more than eager to take you out in the alley and beat the crap out of you.

Not a great advocate of the cause they gave lip-service to.

Don Firth