That's what's here. I feel sadness because I am naive and think everybody is who they say they are, and therefore that those banned (who did ask for it) were conservatives of a type who were misguided, and lost their way, and I wanted to save them, to return them to the fold by the force of logic and the weight of truth. Instead, they are gone, and lost, and now considered "the enemy".
And while for some not so naive, they have been "the enemy" for so long that they are happy to have been rid of those shooting them in the back, for me it seems sad, like (to use a fictional example) Jack Bauer had to shoot and kill Curtis to stop him from killing the terrorist who was going to help. Jack had to do it, Curtis was working against stopping a nuclear attack, but Jack had no joy in it, because Curtis had been an ally.
When you contend with anti-conservative advocacy, personal attacks and incivility day after day, year after year, you get completely cured of the notion that such liberal pushers are “conservatives... who lost their way.” Snakes in the grass is more like it; at least some of them.
I’ve gotten lost in the thread..do you have an update on “the list”?