[A_perfect_lady]

I must confess, I have similar wishes for them. I wish they'd drop dead. I don't claim to possess any higher moral ground, I simply consider this a war and them the enemy. I don't want to "agree to disagree" with the enemy. They are the destroyers of the only culture that ever lived the concepts of rugged individualism and self-government. I want to zap them into deep space. I don't want them to suffer. I just want them to vanish.

I suppose I should hope that they see the light and convert, but I'm convinced that their basic personalities prohibit the possibility, therefore, my attitude toward them is pretty much the same as my attitude toward cockroaches.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I must confess, I have similar wishes for them. I wish they'd drop dead."

While I can understand your feeling that way, I would prefer we split into two nations: one run along purely conservative principles, free markets, robust national defense, and an emphasis on individual liberty and responsibility, and the other left to the leftists and their own devices. We may be headed in that direction anyways....

[Noumenon]

I simply consider this a war and them the enemy. I don't want to "agree to disagree" with the enemy. They are the destroyers of the only culture that ever lived the concepts of rugged individualism and self-government.

You've got it exactly right. As I've said elsewhere, you don't negotiate with cancer, you can't bribe a disease.

You destroy it.