The pendulum has swung too far

From Scott Adams’ The Dilbert Blog:

Now, since I know from the comments that many of my readers are – inexplicably – also troglodytes, allow me to include a disclaimer here. I’m way more hawkish than you are. It just doesn’t look that way because my thinking is that if a bully punches you, you should run away. Later, when he’s asleep, put a bullet in his head and leave the gun in his little brother’s crib so it looks like a sibling squabble. In other words (again, for the troglodytes) being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.

I’m not pro-Iranian or anti-American. I’d pave the rest of the world to save my American cat. The only thing I oppose is muddy thinking. If we need to send Americans into harm’s way, I want reasons and I want a full discussion of the options. Excuuuse the f**k out of me for asking for them.

(NOTE: Edited for profanity)

Adams has captured in two short paragraphs the frustrations that many moderates have felt for the past six years, and his final line shows how far the pendulum has swung towards the extremists and their absolutist demands.

With intentional irony, I call for stamping out intolerance in our politics.

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Cross-posted to Random Fate.