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AN UNSOUND MIND

  An Unsound Mind   For the previous some odd years, those who follow politics can’t help notice the plethora of comments and accusations used by those on the (political) right to judge those on the (political) left. For instance, there are comments that include pejoratives like: the loony left, left-wing loony, left-wing nut job, left-wing moron, useful idiots, sick leftists, mentally ill left, dangerous progressives, and the like (some of which are not even remotely printable). We daily hear conversations peppered with words like “nuts”, “crazy”, “insane”, “unbelievable”, and many more such comments. Some openly aver that "Liberalism” (an unfortunately inaccurate misnomer for “leftists” that belies their truly un-American, Marxist, and progressive doctrines) is a mental disorder. Is that just a euphemism or perhaps is it just perfunctory and rhetorical: maybe just a few men’s opinion? Can it be true that so many people (half the country’s population according to duly r...