I agree with you. I even used to have sort of okay exchanges with him a few years ago.
It’s actually quite disturbing how many way off the deep end leftists there are on FR, many been here for years. And often with seriously nasty attitudes. Got a freepmail (actually 5) from someone the other day who said everyone on the thread hated me and she got freepmails to prove it. Totally schizoid nutso.
This Travyon thing has really been a sort of litmus paper or something, showing where a lot of people really are at.
I've been noticing it as well.