it actually hurts to read your stuff. clearly you can write well and put together some sort of appealing narrative, but you appear to be so bent in a particular direction and biased on an ideological level, while purposely constrained within a 2-party dialectic that it makes me think either you're not as clever as you pretend to be, or you write with such bias for a reason...have you ever thought about zooming out and thinking beyond the sandbox you play in?