Cobb

Moreover, I came distinctly to distrust ideologues -- because, I realized, ideas are more important to them than people. This observation arose first out of personal experience, because most ideologues are likely to reject friendships with those who don't think like them or fit their ideologies. I might be able to maintain a friendship with an ideologue (right or left) for awhile, but inevitably, they would reject me because I didn't fit the mold they wanted to make. Eventually this insight translated to my view of politicians and public figures as well. It has been for some time clear to me that hardened right-wing and left-wing partisans alike place their abstractions well above what happens to ordinary citizens in real life.

It's probably not fair for me, who has given up on the Democrats to razz Neiwert for his distrust of the Republican party. We see the same thing happening. Yet while he believes that it is corrupt beyond recovery, I see the infusion of new blood, The Old School, as its ticket to new life. My vision is longer term and optimistic.

I just hate to see good men give up, and isn't it ironic that he speaks of fascism?