Just yesterday, I read an OP asking why we didn't have progressive media to counter Fox/Limbaugh

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70. :) +1. Maybe think "dissident left" because they're always

against whatever the rest of the left is for? Even when they agree, such as some with universal healthcare, they're compelled by some inner demon to denounce the rest. They can never ally in common cause, but must always oppose, even when that means sabotaging what they say they're for.

An expert on extremism once offered a very succinct lay explanation of that demon. He said the difference between right-wing extremists is that they hate everyone else, while left-wing extremists hate themselves.

I.e., anything they identify themselves with -- their race, their side of the political spectrum, etc.

We've all seen this in action many times ad irritation, tedium, nauseum. In our country these are the ones who, for instance, leap in to passionately blame the U.S. for whatever world problem is being discussed, the contributions of other peoples on the scene to their own problems given about as much attention as Trump does to ants as he strolls the golf course.

This is why they have no real attention left to give to what Republicans are up to. Events may draw their attention briefly away, even generate strong emotional responses; but like rubber bands resisting stretch, hostility always snaps back to us.