Henry Hamilton, Key West resident distraught over election results, kills himself

[davidthegnome]

51. One less mind in the world, in any event

I wonder how many people here at DU are former conservative republicans who changed their minds and their hearts? I wonder how many once listened to Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter and Beck... and found a way to escape the hate machine? Are they idiots? Perhaps, but as a reformed idiot myself (though for different reasons) I've recently graduated to imbecile and I don't think what you said was cold.

On the contrary, I think it was quite heated. Whether he was an idiot or not is quite beside the point - as human beings we always have the potential to change for the better, I am living proof of this. There is one less mind in the world that might have done great things in time.

I do not believe in casting out, or hating severe right wing fanatics, rather, I believe in opening their eyes. Such a lack of basic human decency for a man who killed himself seems to me to demonstrate a basic lack of empathy. Then again, I am an imbecile, perhaps I am mistaken...