[okie01]

"My hope is that they will be reduced to preaching to the choir composed of the 40 percent or so of Americans who are liberals - but in turn that leads to a danger of an even more polarized electorate, as the respective perceived reality of the liberals drifts further away from the real-world reality that we live in."

My hopes are somewhat more ambitious than that -- because of the consequences you describe. I hope the liberal Democrats are metaphorically squashed like a bug. Thence, expelled from serious public discourse forever. Yet, kept caged and alive so as to exhibit their malevolence -- as in a roadside reptile farm.

My reason is the 40% figure you cited above. Remember Lincoln's imprecation: No nation divided against itself can long survive. If 40% of the population is permanently alienated and disaffected, we have little chance of surviving...without another civil war.

So long as there is a functioning liberal Democrat party -- feeding them lies, playing to their victimhood, exhorting them to hate and supporting them with tax dollars via the vehicle of Big Government -- that 40%, while it may not grow, will fester.

I guess I'm past the point of generously thinking the Democrats can no longer be trusted and must reform themselves. It's as if they've become our own version of the Ba'ath party and must be destroyed...lest they destroy America.

Somewhat apocalyptic but...there you have it. I think Teddy Kennedy might be responsible for sending me over the line.

[Wolfstar]

Just got back to my desk and caught up with the thread. We do have a sort of semi-underground, semi-peaceful civil war going on in this country between the hard-core Left and the rest of us. Like Okie, I'm not very optimistic about where it will all end. But, while I'm still on the planet, I won't give up the fight against the international Left and their ambitions. It's just good to know there are folks like you out there also carrying the fight to our Leftist enemies. :-)