ReConUSMC,

One of the things going on in the blog world right now is a lengthy and well-financed psy-op being run by Soros and Obama organizations, targeting conservative blog sites. Their job is to harass, deflect, disrupt, and in general demoralize us. To make us think it’s all pointless. This is why I try to exercise as much restraint as I can: to not feed the trolls. Most of the time I don’t address them directly, even if they try to suck me in. In fact, I don’t read most of what they write, perhaps only skimming them now and then. If I comment about them, the comments are very general references to the themes and ideas they are injecting into the thread’s discussion.

The other reason why I don’t read them is because I spent a decade of my life over on the Far Left, but not as an activist. Mainly as a bookish aspiring revisionist Marxist intellectual who wanted to integrate those ideas into systematic theology. But I broke with Marxism when I determined, after exhaustive searching, that utopian thought cannot be redeemed, and it cannot be reconciled with human nature and the irreducible reality of evil.