Big Lie propaganda tactics:

never allow the public to cool off;
never admit a fault or wrong;
never concede that there may be some good in your enemy;
never leave room for alternatives;
never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong;
people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

LOL... add distort what has been put forward by others and then condemn the distorted statement.

No... I did not imply that posting to mudcat would have national implications... just that Songwronger's thread was more of the same. I have asked in the past if the wronger ever posted a musically based thread... the answer was maybe once to try & sell an instrument. Why the urge to post on mudcat? beats me... maybe there are post ons other sites as well that I don't frequent. All of which is irrelevent to the point.

What is relevent is that when I see or smell the spray from a cat that is pissing on the furniture, I have a pretty good idea that it is marking its territory because it feels threatened and needs to stake it's claim. What was the particular trigger... may or may not know... but it doesn't take a Nobel laureate to have a pretty good, general idea. That's what naturalists do all the time.