I just spent 2 hours reading the KOS threads on Alito. The sense of "us vs them" is profound. I tried to keep an open mind to see if I would be convinced by them if I didn't know anything about politics. But they rarely said anything.
Except to turn me off.
One guy really upset me when I saw the following in his tale of how he became a Kossack dealt with the defining moment of his life:
"When I saw the reaction to 9-11, I knew I was dealing with a creepy kind of evil."
Nothing about 9-11 itself, just "the reaction to it" changed his life.
And yet, I could not logon to DailyKOS and tell him that this theme is exactly what is deep-sixing his political party. My post wouldn't last undeleted for 1 minute over there.
Yep...
Don't use any of that logic stuff over there!
Yikes.