Benj,

I sadly acknowledge the truth of what you say. I fear that BDS and ODS are merely symptoms of the same pathology.

However, I don’t need to go to an Obama/Biden rally to see the same. The back and forth on my local paper’s forum has become indigestible. Today’s bon mot is how John McCain’s treason in Hanoi (signing the confession under torture) is predicate of his thievery with the Keating 5. Increasingly, I’m seeing comments calling for re-education camps for conservatives. (Provocation? Perhaps, but the syntax convinces me.)

It’s all over the place. Everybody is nervous and scared.

(I put a couple of responses to you on the Crossed Paths thread … )