Trumpland, MA: A little cyberbullying at East Boston High School

Don't use abbreviations. Even in the day of Twitter abbreviations are best left in the dictionary when writing. While there are common abbreviations such as A.M. and P.M., BCE and CE, an abbreviation such as FFS is not common enough. If you're too lazy to write out the words then perhaps just don't write anything.

When I was a teenager listening to my anti-Black and anti-Jewish relatives I mistakenly mentioned that when they paint an entire group of people with a negative broad stroke they are speaking evil. I wasn't smart enough to understand that the words were evil but the point was painting a entire group of people with a single brush relegates human beings to objects. Objects which can be disposed of as though they were trash.

So painting a broad stroke with a word that sadly has taken on a negative meaning - liberal - relegates a large group of people to objects which can be disposed of as though they were trash.

That is one of the first albeit innocuous seeming steps toward a monolithic homogenous culture that attempts to wipe out anyone who varies from a singular form of acceptable thinking or belief. Which ironically is something that many (not all certainly) politicians and commentators who describe themselves as conservative (their word but the accuracy of which I would debate) often say about those damn "liberals."

So instead of trying to objectify and dehumanize "liberals" try to use a few more words and focus what you're saying. Because calling one group "liberals" or another group "those Jews" just makes you, an individual writer, sound like a mean nasty cus.

Anyway the truest conservatives are usually of a political and social liberal perspective. They are the ones who want to conserve instead of destroy the environment. They are the ones who want to conserve the fundamental values inherent to the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people. They are concerned with understanding the truth of human nature and the world we live in. They are the people who are most concerned with conserving intelligent, thoughtful, reflective thought, consideration and speech.

As for witch hunts the literal and metaphorical witch hunts in this culture have always come from the people who would call themselves conservative. Joe McCarthy in the Senate and the House Committee on Un-American Activities together being example one. Writing of witch hunts reminds me that I read that Newt "adulterer while wife is dying" Gingrich wanted to use the Orlando mass shooting as an excuse to start another HUAC. But Newt is smart enough to understand that when you let that kind of genie out of the bottle all hell will break loose.

My guess is that Newt smells fear and strife in the air and figures his way back to power is by taking down political opponents. Start a witch hunt, twist it to some definition of "un-American" that attacks his political enemies and with that start slinging mud and creating enough havoc that he and his cohorts come out with little political competition and wind up being the pipers who tell everyone else how to walk lockstep.

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The lefties were all set to channel their rage into the government agencies they thought for sure they were going to win control of. They didn't, so they've found a new target: "Trumpland." It's annoying, but it's a known quantity.

You take that away from them, what sort of troublemaking will they get up to next?