Comment: Lumen, the fault was mine.  I read your posts often enough to know that you are indeed an enlightened gentleman who would never say "We are in a war with selfish, foolish & narcissistic rich people" --- except to excoriate that sentiment.  And yes, it should be excoriated.  The left is bent toward what they always have been --- overturning the social order for the purpose of taking what you own. They are now using low-level violence to get it.  We are just past the nascent stages of a quiet revolution.  As the left becomes more intolerant of free expression, they shut it down with violence.  That is happening now.  They will become more intolerant, and more violent, but they do not want a bloody civil war.  They're waiting for us to get used to the idea that the America we loved is gone.  Then it will be complete, bloodless.