I know it won't be politically correct to say this but I think 'the left' is reaping what it sowed. Particularly what it sowed during Bush's presidency (lest we forget all the hate filled nonsense spewed during those years) and what it sowed during the election. Specific to the latter sowing is all that 'only racists disagree with Obama' foolishness. That was a stupid ball to get rolling. IMHO what we're seeing now is in part the effects of not getting that ball 'over the top' – it's lost forward trajectory and after slowing it has reversed to begin rolling over all those that pushed it up – crushing them on its way back down into the dark pit of cultural stereotyping. It is never a good idea to demonize your opponent, especially in such a hate filled way. If we don't think it's hateful to call someone a racist 'just because' then why are we now finding it hateful to see people called 'nazi' and 'socialist' with equal lack of reason to do so?

I think Jesus would say stop using labels that aren't appropriate for describing those with whom you disagree. I think he'd say it now and I think he would have said it during the election.

Do you ask this question knowing that the answer is, “Nothing”? That's assuming that drawing in the dirt does not count as heckling.

I myself am not omniscient. I'd like to be, so I have imagined how soothing it would be to know now who wins today's conflicts, accounting for my confidence in the above. Instead I have to be content knowing that someone wins, maybe even stupidity, impetuousness, and outright lying. Still I'd never heckle anyone. That's in part due to my personality. The other part of that is my fatalism that voters will decide about whether the current round of name-calling and valuing clever words over documented facts appeals to them or appalls them as it appalls me. If voters choose what appalls me, it wouldn't be the first time. I don't remember that ever turning out for the best, but maybe it turns out to be yet another learning experience for some people regarding the problems with our human nature, controlling and contentious as we are.

So what? Cultural evolution is run by people as a whole, not just the smart ones, the wise ones, the loving ones or the scrupulously honest ones. I feel the need as a scientist to respect that, just as I know as a Christian that I can take a different way. In truly accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I can find that I don't need to heckle any more than He does, that I don't need to be anxious about the result of this any more than He does. So why do so many hecklers call themselves Christians, when it must be fear, pride and idols driving them? I guess if they were good listeners about their own faults, they wouldn't be hecklers, would they?

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