as Evil. Maybe Evil dupes, but Evil nonetheless. These are the same folks who would vandalize your car or house for having the 'wrong' bumper sticker or sign, who would threaten you and swear at you in front of children if you don't go along with the vile propaganda, and who apparently have no independent thought capability at all.

It's irrational to think as they do, contrary to any proof against their tightly held beliefs on war, public assistance, economy, global climate change, and so many other subjects. Their paranoia about anything different and about their fellow citizens is telling - it is not rational to think they must carry guns every where, for instance.

I wonder if they react so strongly to people like Bowe Bergdahl BECAUSE he gained a bit of sanity about our war in Afghanistan. I think it frightens to see someone raise issues they don't want to consider so they attack rather than attempt to understand.

Can mental illness be contagious? Is it a product of wrong-headedness, or a larger social conflict? What gives these people (or any people, even the 1% Elitists) the presumption that they are in charge of everything, including other people's lives and happiness, freedoms and decisions?

Instead of just jogging along, trying to jump-start a dead economy burdened with parasites and a dead democracy burdened with fascists, we need to sort things out.

And that is what this Administration has manifestly failed to do. Instead of going to the mats for people, it's gone to the wall for Corporations. Criminal Banksters, especially.

Certainly a warped perspective of reality is - look at the witch trials, the French Revolution, the Joe McCarthy era in Congress.

Today it's Obama Derangement Syndrome. Think of all the things that the Obama administration has done that if a Reagan or a Bush administration has proposed or done, the right wing nuts would have applauded. Instead they scream, "Impeach!" and froth at the mouth.

To a lesser extent there is ODS on the Democratic side, especially the more liberal edge - Obama hasn't done enough to save the country, hasn't performed miracles by getting the right wing nuts to pass needed legislation, and hasn't gotten everything done we had hoped for.

I don't think anyone could make everyone happy, and Obama has managed to piss off both ends of the spectrum.

And they've been infecting the country from Day One.

becoming crazy yourself.

Unable to empathize with strangers and they let their emotions dominate their intellect.

comes immediately to mind.

It is a dark underbelly.

Even if everything said about Sgt Bergdahl is true (and I'm sure it's not), extending the criticism to the parents is entirely off-base and disgusting.

We as a nation have become heartless to the poor, powerless and lower-classes because the common man does not think for himself or honestly relate to God. The human must deal with his lower nature by choice or he becomes on the level of an animal (dog eat dog).
Those who die spiritually eventually kill a nation.

There's plenty of evidence for that, from the earlier calls from congress to get Bergdahl out. Republicans want to get their people worked up about how releasing the 5 from Gitmo will make us less safe, but they have to then illustrate how getting our guy back wasn't worth it, or worse, why he didn't deserve it.

Yes, it's disturbing and disgusting to use Bergdahl is this respect.

On our own side, we have this issue where the government is spying on us, and that's pretty bad. No, I'm done making a distinction between listening to actual conversations vs. collecting metadata. This is bad, and it's dangerous to our democracy. Yes, Bush started it, and Obama continued it and probably built it up even more. But we have people on our own side who, now, will justify it, weasel around trying to show why it's just perfectly fine, and attack other people who speak against massive surveillance.

And again, it's all a matter of party. And it's just as disturbing and disgusting.

country anymore.

I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true.

This daily drumbeat of deserter, war criminal, etc has to stop. It is irresponsible and dangerous.

fake news didn't mind putting abortion doctors in danger did they.

In the rare instances I have to talk to any of them, I calmly counter their vitriol with facts. It doesn't change their minds, but they don't keep screaming the crap for a while.

The superpower status allow our politicians to be arrogant SOBs and allow them to do anything and say anything they like to. They finally show their true face when Obama became our President in 2009. His election exposed these necromongers inside the power corridors of D.C.

Their latest comments regarding our recently released soldier are simply despicable and profoundly embarrassing this country.

In a fair world, everyone would wait for the facts to come out. At one time in our history a person was innocent until proven guilty. It seems to have changed when we weren't looking.

...looks like they want to decide who lives or dies when we send our soldiers to war.

RIP Capt. Jones, American hero.

signifying nothing.

When the anguished father of one of the recent mass shootings said this, I agreed with him about the gun culture he was lambasting.

But on deeper level, what he said resonated with me in terms of what we've allowed this country to become.

His question should be a rallying cry to confront and push back the ugliness that defines who we've become:

Stop this madness; we don't have to live like this!

They probably are not ever going to be able to lead normal lives. I imagine that the family's joy at having Bowe finally released is now tempered with anguish over what has happened since. I wish Bowe and his family the best. How they are being treated now is a national disgrace.

are pushing the Uncaring part..

Fucking Time Mag..



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Poll says Americans are about evenly split on the deal that returned five Taliban prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdah http://wapo.st/1kExf7D

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Americans are split on the Bergdahl swap — and (of course) they’re...

84 percent of Americans worry that such negotiations could lead to further kidnappings. But that's no surprise.
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that's pretty much 95% of the problem

to the country I served for in Navy.