This is why I often skip your writing.
I don't want to wade through a bunch of ad hominems that don't impress anyone to get to whatever point you are trying to make."
But Kalamata's posts are awash in ad hominems, so you should not feel sorry when he gets back what he dishes out.
More important, like all Democrats, our Lost Causers' thinking is often pathological (pro-Confederate, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Republican, etc.) and so correcting your facts and reasons really only treats the symptoms, not your underlying psychosis.
Of course nobody here is qualified to deal with Democrat pathologies, but we can at least point in the direction we think they originated, and in Kalamata's case that seems pretty clearly his politically abused childhood.
Yes, DiogenesLamp is a different story, beginning with the fact that you are usually quite good about not attacking other FReepers with ad hominems.
That suggests you likely weren't abused as a child, politically, in the same way Kalamata seems to have been.
So, if it wasn't childhood anger that drove you insane, what was it?
Well, my best guess is the second most powerful human emotion, sometimes said to defeat the most powerful (anger), and often attributed to why people "lose it" -- love.
I'm guessing there was a pretty Southern girl who stole your heart and would not give it back, and so to please her you'd do just about anything, right?
My mother was such a girl and my Dad didn't stand a chance... ;-) They lived a long life together and raised a big family, but Mom's original family were Southern Unionists and so my Dad didn't have to go nuts to please her.
Think about that -- not everyone south of the Mason Dixon buys into Lost Cause lies.
Plenty of other fish in that sea.