A thought:
I am not saying anyone here is doing this stuff, but just to keep this in mind...
We must remember not to resort to argumentatum ad hominem, nor to be swayed by such arguments from others ("he was a socialist, therefore everything he says is bunk!" -- "or she is an anarchist, therefore everything she says is right") nor to engage in this illogical form of persuasion. Living as we do in a country of personalities, rather than reason, it is easy to fall into this logic trap.
I do it myself. I think perhaps others (I had otters here, and started to leave it, just for the levity, but the clarity would have suffered...still, I like otters, so, remember, we are the otters of the universe.) may do it at times as well. To refute any concept with an attack on a person is simply not a good argument, nor good training for your own critical thinking. (See
www.think.ws for more on thinking.)
I write this to say, or to type, that no matter what the political persuasions -- or any persuasions -- of any individual -- their offerings of ideas must be judged solely on the merits of the ideas offered. Sure, after you have known some clown a while, and almost everything she says is comedy, you may have trouble taking anything said seriously, much less considering it, and that is called filtering, a perfectly acceptable human facility.
But don't dismiss ideas because they come from a feralfae, or accept them because they come from an Iloilo. Or the other way around, or some other way, or something like that.
I guess I should send this to Rex....
But I hope it helps everyone with our thinking and how we evaluate concepts and their applications. Okay, back to other things.