>"I was quite apolitical. It's just not annoying anymore, I'm starting to feel personally endangered by it."

I've noticed your shift. First it was distasteful, then annoying, then aggravating, then completely unacceptable. I remember you got mad, very mad. And this is good. Your thinking is in line with the American people who were getting tired themselves of being told what to think, and what not to think.

It back-fired on them. The brown shirts.
It was a bloody feeding frenzy there for a while with Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, GWB, etc....but now it's blowback time and the elections helped that. We almost lost our country to that mind set. It was UGLY. Very, very ugly.

>"I thank them for my political reawakening. My computer monitor now reads "This machine kills fascists". "

Hallelujah! Yours and a million others.
The written word and spoken word was all we had.
The tables are finally turned as we hold their noses to the grindstone.
It was a learning experience.
Maybe we needed to go through it to grow as a country.

Never be intimidated.
No fear.