It really is time people defined what they mean by "bullying"
As far as I'm concerned, it means permanent personal insulting and attempting to talk down those you disagree with - that only happens with a few people
Nott so long ago, the worst of them disappeared (presumably banned and not taken for a long drive into the woods) - his protége remains.
It is the bullies who complain the loudest about being bullied - isn't that always the case?
There's nothing wrong with being 'opposed' - even vehemently at times - you learn nothing from watching nodding dogs

Joe hasn't 'defined' what he mans by 'bullying' and he has yet to respond to those of us who have
He hasn't specified what he means by "a whole passel of rabid liberals who are neither tolerant nor pacifist"
I see no evidence of this here

I consider the term "rabid liberal" an oxymoron - a contradiction in terms - it has become very much an American habit to deliberately re-invent the language to excuse the inexcusable - £friendly fire" for killing anybody who happens to be there; collateral damage for slaughtering the innocent; extraordinary rendition fo illegal abduction and torture; waterboarding, near drowning as torture.
I love our language and have been appalled to hear it regularly it, unconsciously 'Estuaryised' in Britain      
To see it deliberately used as a political weapon out Orwells Orwell's "Newspeak"
Jim Carroll