Rall of course has a First
Amendment right to say whatever he wants, but ... . In my
lifetime - not so very long ago - this would have been expected to happen. A spontaneous extralegal outburst of peer pressure would have been applied. And who knows? After his
recovery he may have learned not to skip his meds, and gone on to a nice
career with Home Depot. One of two things has happened to
us. Either we have become so pussifyingly civilized that we will suffer
any insult, or - we've become as filthy a people in our politics as he.
*vomit*
My bona fides. I
counseled President Nixon to use napalm on the 1969 Woodstock
Festival. Now, everybody agrees it was the right thing.
Ahem.
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