"I should be exempt from abuse as a matter of courtesy
~ an attribute in which those of the left seem lamentably deficient."

.. of course, us polite civilised moderate self-disciplined lefties
are only too aware that we are constantly surrounded & ambushed
by belligerent pig headed abusive arseholes from all ends and tangents
of our terminally dysfunctional political & cultural spectrum.....

[punkfolkrocker - Grammar school & Polytechnic educated son
of a mild mannered conciliatory & compliant factory trade union shop steward...

Poor Dad never suspected he was a Bosses'stooge and being played for a fool by management,
until the factory our council estate was built to serve and depend on
suddenly closed down to preserve stockholders wealth
and he and all his workmates were made redundant - circa 1983]