They have endangered the lives of every American who may want to/have to travel abroad. Non-Americans look at one of us and think “Good God, there’s another one of those idiots that voted for Bush. Shoot ‘em.”

They have endangered our rights, our freedoms, our children and our grandchildren with their selfish and self-aggrandizing ways – which, they then defend as their absolute right as a freedom-loving, living American, while they are, at the same time, doing everything in their power to deny the “rest of us” that very same right.

These people are either incredibly clever and manipulative or are incredibly selfish and stupid. Either way, they are effectively and persistently eroding our rights, steadfastly banishing our freedoms, and deliberately destroying our world.

I would say that all adds up to High Treason.

These people seem to feel they have been victimized somehow. Let us bring the truth home to them: Take away their platforms, and reduce their influence to nothing. Better yet, let them all be imprisoned for their treasonous conspiracies against the people and the Constitution.

He writes not to explore a set of ideas, but rather to justify his beliefs and his self-worth. This is exactly the kind of rationalism one would expect if they were attempting to get a Narcisst to analyze his own flaws. It will always be “I was right, but other [things, people, whatever] obstructed me.

The disassociation is because of the defenses he has to build to maintain his self-image of perfection. Any reality that conflicts with that self-image must be explained away in some less threatening manner than to admit his own failure and incorrect ideas.

There is no other way to account for the gratuitous France bashing, plus the simultaneous bemoaning that “liberal” had been stolen from them while whining that their own moniker had become associated with unpleasant connotations.

Satire. The only other explanation would exclude the author’s ability to construct a sentence in print or aloud.

Ha! Time saved.