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Must now be the most hated people in America<\/a>. \u00a0I know so little about them it isn\u2019t funny. \u00a0For all I know the whole lot of them need rounded up and sent to jail. \u00a0But, again, the ones calling for them to be arrested and heaping scorn and contempt on them are many of the same ones who do the same for me simply because of my stance on, for instance, gay marriage. \u00a0So that\u2019s the first thing to give me pause.<\/p>\n

The second is the almost blitzkrieg like assault on them from almost every corner of the Left. \u00a0Any time there appears to be such a deliberate desire to discredit and malign people, right or left, I hesitate to jump on the bandwagon. <\/p>\n

Finally, it sounds like they are being attacked for a host of issues that have little to do with what they are really objecting to, which includes Federal overreach (from their POV at least) that many who are attacking them seem to otherwise complain about as well. \u00a0When it gets down to \u2018you\u2019re stupid and your mamma dresses you funny\u2019, something about the substance of the criticisms comes up short. \u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my two cents. \u00a0Again, they might be as bad as all of those who are attacking them say. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0But I will wait until I know more before I grab my verbal torch and rhetorical pitchfork.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"