At the same time, you’ve managed to dodge the evil spell, and don’t know what it’s like to be under it. Maybe, against all reason and logic, the end will be to the death, or near it, as in riots, bands of robbers, and such. That would be a great tragedy.
You give me far too much credit, brother. I sucked my share of liberal Kool-Aid when I was a young skull full of mush.
The only thing that saved me were the core values I absorbed as a young child. They're what I came full circle to, when I got old enough to see things for myself.
I lived cheek-by-jowl with the horde long enough to thoroughly understand their mindset. I marinated in the same juices they did, for a very long time. I guess I just never cured all the way through :-)