Sometimes it does. But I think what more often hijacks threads around here is people's personal feuds with other people, including their feuds with Guest posters as well as members.

Anyway, the point is that Ellsberg says that the American government has been taken over by a coup, and that the coup is anti-constitutional and essentially unamerican in the extreme. I agree with that.

The ironical part is, though, that the architects of the coup are probably under the impression that they are quintessentially American and are doing what's right for America...such aggressive patriotism being as has been said "the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings"... ;-)