[cthulha]

I don't think the public pressure is nonsensical: Koch may be doing the right thing in some areas and not others. Why does it have to be so black-and-white? Can't people raise issues that they genuinely believe to be bad for the country they live in?

[marklyon]

Some people wear such narrow ideological blinders that they're incapable of comprehending that this week's subject of two minutes hate might not actually be the all-encompassing embodiment of evil they've been told. They label everything they encounter as good (generally, where "good" is on the side of agreeing with them) and bad (generally, where "bad" transgresses by deigning even remotely disagree with the "good"). That sort of approach silences thought, innovation, argument and compromise.

It's a sad state of affairs that serves only the leaders who utilize such simplistic division so that they can lock in votes with far less effort than is required to meaningfully solve real problems.