@NahnCee:
Lashing out because she’s putting her husband the college professor up as elitist expert.

Which is more or less what I did too.

However, Wendy could have been purely straightforward and interested in a decent response. The fact that she got more heat than light and more raspberries than a default to kindness may indicate our “loyalist” faction among BC commenteers is suffering from a siege mentality.

Another example is my overheated frustration in the face of dismissive attitudes about “conspiracies”. Coherent, conspiratorial, political activity by revolutionaries here now is dismissed as a lunatic concept in the same way I dismiss “Truthers” as lunatics.

To me it is obvious that there are great numbers of leftists who play a lifelong game of semi-secretly “not selling out” their revolutionary vision while superficially dismissing “McCarthism” and railing against “fascistic” Republican suppression of [their] freedom. It is obvious to me because I dabbled in those waters when young and I see the academic careers of the same “faithful” today, forty years later.

So, I’m a wingnut for thinking there are moonbats out there, I suppose. Or am I a wingnut for thinking that many of the moonbats are much more serious than any of us wingnutters care to think about.