[Charles Martel]

What we have here is a blatant abandonment of principle in favor of faction, politics in its most primitive, unthinking, tribal form. One of the things that makes it primitive is its proclivity for violence. We see this today in the identity of who gets shouted down on campus - left or right? Who gets their tires slashed at election time, their cars keyed, their signs stolen, left or right?

Agreed, the left is in full "Lord of the Flies" mode. It's worth noting, too, that the Democrats' recapture of a majority in Congress has not halted this trend. Quite the opposite, in fact - they've grown ever more shrill. A few election cycles ago, I worried that a Democrat victory would bring about an insufferable leftist gloat-fest; now I think there's something considerably darker in the offing.

[papertyger]

Agreed, the left is in full "Lord of the Flies" mode. It's worth noting, too, that the Democrats' recapture of a majority in Congress has not halted this trend. Quite the opposite, in fact - they've grown ever more shrill.

They have discovered our system carries the very real possibility of them losing the ground gained through manipulation and demagoguery in the first place, and they are determined not to let that happen "by any means necessary."