[Robert Teesdale]

And this piece IS pure agitprop; it was written to elicit exactly the reaction it’s getting out here, right now. Guarantee we have the other side trolling this thread, right now, taking and making notes.

Both points are true. The original piece reads like the whining taunt of an unwelcome child who is running home from a neighborhood game after being picked last at stickball.

With respect to the unsympathetic lurkers... why, that's positive. Based on comparative reply count for this thread, it's a reasonably interesting issue for our indigenous posting population, and there's not a lot of dissent on ideological position. Extrapolate that to the greater FR population, and thence to red states, and you get the sense that automatic success assumptions might be served by revisitation of expectations by the opposition.

In other words, "this is a really bad idea".

[NFHale]

“...In other words, “this is a really bad idea”....”

If it wasn’t, they’d already be on it. They’re wicked and evil, but they aren’t stupid.

There’s a song title that comes to mind:

“If You Want Blood...You Got It.”

[Travis McGee]

I am so in agreement.