A dying religion and a retro political movement linked by their mutual hatreds. Both want to go back to a time when common decency wasn't so common. It wasn't some "golden age." It was a time when someone could be a complete ass in public and get away with it.

So, shouldn't the GOP go after Kennedy too ??

The article finds one guy to say it's a good word, so, of course it's fine to go to the newly sacred f-word ("fascist" ) dogma and hyperventilate it into the headline.

I'm starting to reluctantly accept that people seem to have to moor themselves to "some" simplistic, emotionally charged dogma, whether it calls itself religious or scientific or kind, or, usually, all three.

We can't accept that it's important to exercise without saying "vaccines are bad" on the one hand, or, "fascists are under my bed," on the other. Why can't it just be obvious that exercise is good and vaccines are too?

But no, smh, every little obvious fact about the world, including greed, laziness, and political bias has to be filtered through some form of simplistic melodrama of the mind. A story. Yay. I'm starting to understand what Harlan Ellison said about this whole thing. To paraphrase, the witless, blind mob drags the world down with its silliness, and that would be okay if it didn't drag down the rest of us too.

I'm one of those damned 'liberals'!

And, on edit, it is a good article. There is a lot of good information there.

"Spiritual healing" by getting right with god, having the right crystals around to balance your energy, or getting your chi all balanced right ... Woo.

Some like being wooed, but it depends on the pseuder that's doing the supposedly scientific wooing.