Two Americas

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6. True as far as it goes, but

the 2 major divisions are the Left/Center left humans who are “capax rationis”, versus the Right/Extreme Right humans who are “non compos mentis”.

The “capax rationis” is an 18th century tag, gratis Dr. Swift, meaning that humans are capable of reason, and accepts that they do not always exercise that capability.

The “non compos mentis” applies to everyone on the Right, plain and simple, with a small and insignificant handful of exceptions.

Swift did not hesitate to refer to this sort of human as “Yahoos” and to assign them the same traits, albeit as regards mostly their intellectual and moral failings as opposed to the physical, as the feces flingers in Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels. (Our Right Wing managed, on January 6th, to display the physical proclivities of Swift's Yahoos along with the intellectual and moral failings.)