DougR, a couple of things you've posted lately have left me feeling troubled.

On another thread you accused all liberals in the Mudcat of being rude (lacking courtesy). I questioned you about that on that thread, but you didn't answer me. I consider myself a liberal, but I think it would be unfair for you to characterize me as being rude.

And on this thread, you said, "I think your post of 7:04 P.M., October 5, clarifies for me, at least, why I have questioned several posts you have writen that appear to be unfriendly to the United States"

This troubles me in particular because I have never posted anything indicating that I wish harm to the US. Quite the opposite, in fact. I am concerned about what is going to happen to the US during this time of crisis. I have different ideas about how things should be handled than you do, but what I want is for good things to happen for the US. I guess I just have different ideas about what's good for the US than you do.

What troubles me about this is that you seem to be suggesting that the very fact that I hold different ideas than you do about what is good for the US, means that I hold feelings that are unfriendly to the US.

I have to admit that these things leave me pretty troubled about where you're coming from as far as your attitude about people with differing opinions is concerned. If you start accusing people who hold different ideas than you of being "unfriendly to the US", doesn't that make you a bit of an extremist? (I wanted to use the word 'fascist', but I think that may be a bit too strong.)