From your response to RL's "middle ground" comment in the "Lonely Place" thread below.

This isn't politics, it isn't philosophy, it isn't even ideology. Its just hatred, pure, unalloyed, toxic, unreasoning, evil hatred. And I'm sure that's apparent to every single person here.

Do you really expect me to sit down and calmly reason with you? Tom, you're a very angry and bitter man. You sound like someone has done you a great injustice, not just a political injustice, but a personal deliberate malicious attack. And it has poisoned you, crippled you.

At first I thought it was just hyperbole, canned phrases coiled up and ready to be released when needed. But I'm starting to think it goes a lot deeper than that. This is straight from the limbic system, real lizard brain stuff.

I hope you can restrict it to purely theoretical and rhetorical situations, or it will surface one day in an inappropriate environment, when you least expect it and do you great harm. Or worse, it will simmer deep in the depths of your soul and eat you from the inside out until there is nothing left but a hollow shell.

Obama will be gone, soon. But I don't think your hate will dissipate when he goes, even if he dies. It will latch on to someone or something else. And I have a feeling there is no shortage of potential targets for that vitriol. I fear you will never be free of it.

"What can men do against such reckless hate?'