Sad but true. I am not a Buchananite but he made a serious argument that deserves to be addressed.
Right. And I share your sense of sadness. More and more, we seem to be drifting into one of those periods in history, when there is a sharp rise in fanaticism. The consequences can be very ugly indeed.
As one scans the responses, every time there is a posting that challenges certain presumptions, or appears to challenge certain presumptions, held sacred by dogmatists, reason goes out the window, and the slurs and insults follow. The participants in the flood of abuse, sadly, do not have a clue, how their venom turns off those still able to reason, who surf by, looking for intellectual challenge, rather than rant.
Thank you for continuing to be a reasoned voice in whatever thread you participate.
William Flax