Well, Just Maybe Women Are Sick of This Shit From All Kinds of Men.

[Hortensis]

47. I suggest women be as principled as possible, and most ARE

far less unprincipled than some.

I'm a lifelong feminist and I'm also a lifelong despiser of extremists and the extreme, unprincipled, even indecent behaviors extreme passions make them prone to.

Let's not forget that, not at all long ago, many were eager to have the votes of 17 million Democrats set aside to effectively appoint someone else our nominee. Zealots are dangerous and not because of their commitment to democracy and to liberty and justice for all.

And there's certainly nothing new about the dangers from those. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had plenty to say about the zealots attacking in both new states as they tried to establish our democracy.

“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
― Anatole France

“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”
― Truman Capote

“What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi