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O.K., I'll admit, I didn't read your missive. I quickly scanned a few paragraphs before my gorge started to rise I and had to stop. As to your question..

How can you live your life so bitter, angry and convinced that this country is just one large conspiracy that the people are just too blind to see?

You can't start with position that the opposition is rational. They are not, not in any sense of the word. The only way they can do the mental gymnastics necessary to hold the insane ideas they possess is if...

1.The rest of society are too stupid to see the truth.

2.The rest of society is part of a conspiracy. Often noted as personal feelings of alienation or persecution (paranoid delusions).

3. Only through great personal effort (ranting, raving and generally making an overwrought emotional fool of ones self) can you rescue the unenlightened form themselves.

The bitterness and anger isn't the source of the problem, it's a manifestation of the internal struggle necessary to keep reason at bay so emotion can over rule common sense. Other self destructive behaviors will also manifest, alcoholism, drug abuse, physical violence against others...

When you force reason to take a back seat to emotion, don't be surprised when emotion and all of the negative aspects thereof take control.

Thats my $.02 view anyway.

Well your .02 is pretty close to what I'd considered...but just never put into words as eloquently as you. Usually after reading their drivel I just want to scream..."they're NUTS!!" as the spittle hits my computer monitor.

But I still don't comprehend...especially in light of your analysis how these people are able to function on a daily basis and intereact with other people.

I mean to they look at the grocery store clerk sacking their groceries and wonder "is he/she in on it too?"

Do they sit in a restraunt and wonder if the waitress taking their order is actually a spy that's going to give their name to the guys in the black helicopter flying overhead?