I'm harboring a seething, white-hot burning hatred of republicans right now...

[byronius]

82. Some historical perspective always helps.

Today's conservatives would be considered pathetic and liberal by their forerunners, who bombed, beat, tortured and burned as their initial conversation opener. I'm reading 'The Great Migration' by Isabel Wilkerson, and the descriptions of conservative terrorism are chilling.

Willis McCall, sheriff in Alabama, for instance. 'Big Hat', as they called him, routinely murdered black men as entertainment. His primary job was to invent fines for local black people so they could be assigned to work 16 hour days seven days a week for local planters -- slavery by any other name.

A local white woman claimed that she had been raped by three black men (she recanted later, it was a white neighbor), and so McCall rounded up three random black men, handcuffed them, took them out into the woods and shot them. One survived and crawled back to town still in handcuffs to tell the story -- a judge sentenced him to life in prison for the rape, even though he was able to prove that he had been in court when the rape was committed. McCall was never charged, the matter was never investigated. The falsely-accused survivor served life in prison.

My point is -- they've been around a long time, these monsters, and now they're fading out faster than ever before. Slowly but surely, conservative memes are disappearing from the earth. These current clowns have a mere shadow of the power they used to wield. A few generations and they'll be historical smoke.

I do understand, very much. I struggle with the same rage, every day. I can't talk politics with any conservative or libertarian, period, ever. Words like 'murderer', 'genocidal psychopath', and 'treasonous traitor' immediately come out of my mouth, and I mean them.

History says they're soon to be isolated and dying out. Not soon enough, but it's happening.