Why me? Everyone else in this thread has equally strongly held philosophical principles. You disagree with mine and therefore wish I'd simply go away -- not participate in the public forum. That's what's wrong with this organization, and every preceding one like it that come to us under the presumption of "getting along" and "getting beyond our partisanship", when what they really are suggesting is the same old same old left message...

We are the good guys. We mean well. Our points of view are right and nobody should disagree with us. If you disagree with us, you are mean and partisan, have an agenda, and are unyielding.

The right is "extreme". The left never is.