No, Don, it was not in any way a response to that post of yours. I was simply talking some about the negative behaviours one sees on both the political Right and the political Left, while emphasizing most strongly that I do NOT equate the poltical Right with the political Left!

I think the political Right is deeply wrong in its basic philosophy of both finance and foreign policy. I think the political Left has some good ideas in the area of both finance and foreign policy. I think the political Left has virtually ceased to exist at a practical level in the USA government, and that that's been the case since the Reagan years.

I think there are some jerks, fanatics, and self-righteous assholes in both camps...the American Right and the American Left. What unites them is their utter contempt for one another and their sheer nastiness, not to mention their sense of moral grandeur and entitlement. Which camp has more of them is quite hard to determine...it would be like trying to determine how many worms are burrowing in the soil under my lawn! ;-) I'll leave it to others to count them.