PLUS, you should have also noticed... I was referring to the "price" being the incremental battles they have fought over my 60 year lifetime, including writing enough books to take up an entire wall of the "library of congress!"
Many of them have risked an uncertain future to the same extent as you and I have. They really believe, just as strongly as you, what they mistakenly believe. They, like the terrorists, are destructive, rather than constructive and they are just as committed to the destruction of the USA and all that it has stood for!
Which is why my strategy is to redirect that energy. Many of these people care more about nature than they do about the government.