South Korea To Restart Its Oldest Nuclear Reactor

I've been trying to stay out of politics lately, but my ethics and concern for my country require me to reply to your posts.

In the last decade or so (after 9/11, not coincidentally) there has been a rash of cult-like right-wing nationalism and tribal "us versus them". It existed prior to this millennium, but it's been getting worse, and more concerning. The rhetoric is, in my opinion, becoming dangerous and increasingly ridiculous, and if not checked, may lead to severe consequences for our nation and the world.

You can't reason with a cult member, and likewise, with an ultra-nationalist or conspiracy theorist. The best you can hope for is that a method of cult recovery "deprogramming" comes along, or that a significant shift in the dialog marginalizes the cult.

Still, even though you won't, I encourage you (and anyone reading this who thinks as you do) to step back, get a look at the big picture, and try making friends with some people outside your echo chamber, before your rantings move any further from merely extreme into the "bat-guano insane" category. Sorry for being so blunt, but this is what conservatives would call "tough love".

For the record:

Obama is not a socialist communist fascist Muslim Brotherhood member of the Trilateral U.N. Knights Templar.

Progressives/Liberals are not your enemy, nor are they the enemy of the state. They merely favor a different approach than you do for government's role in society. They do NOT believe any less than you do in freedom or democracy. Deal with it.

When teachers make as much as military contractors or wall street traders, you can talk to me about teacher's unions. Until then, no dice.

Despite your signature's attempt to demean the concept, some ideas ARE so good they need to be mandatory. I'm sure you've heard that absolute freedom destroys freedom (it's true). Your freedom to pollute the air must knuckle to my freedom to breathe clean air, and so on.

Really, my friend, come down out of the trees. And ask some of your friends to turn off the hate mongers on the TV and radio, and come down out of the trees with you. Please do it soon, so we can avoid the less pleasant consequences that are coming if this radical polarization and crazy fear mongering continues. You don't need lots of guns and ammo. You need balance.

Your characterizations and ad hominems show extreme condescension, arrogance, and intellectual elitism, not to mention a huge dose of hubris and disregard for truth, intellectual honesty, and reality. Attitudes and beliefs such as yours are a huge part of the problem the US is in.

It's obvious we are at polar opposites and will never agree, therefor I must strive to expose those kinds of beliefs and the ideology that drives them for the shams that they are and defeat them in the public arena wherever and whe

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