nicely put.

i'd prefer to compare us to communists though, back in the mccarthy era - there you will find the same broad and excessive enemy, the same insane penalties for simply holding an opinion, and the same tendency to brand everyone even vaguely associated with an identified red with the same hot iron.

there might be something to be learned from all that, but try as i might, i can't quite put my finger on what caused the furore to die out.

perhaps it was because they eventually outted too many commies, and too many people were discovering that not only were their close friends getting hit, but they themselves were under suspicion.

i'd like to think it collapsed under the weight of it's own excess, and i'm hoping the same sort of thing might happen here, if we could push it far enough.

peter became the rock on which the christian church was founded.