As per your request, Blairchafe, here is the meat of the subject post.  They will probably  delete it again but c'est la vie.  Strangely, I can go 20 posts in a row without deletions and all of a sudden three out of six will be mysteriously deleted.  Perhaps some lefty is power tripping that day, who knows?  If it gets more frequent I shall stop posting.  If it permeates the columns of my favourite columnists, I shall stop reading and paying my $27.07 monthly.

I would submit the most extremism and intolerance in our time comes from the far left. They - not the righties - clamour for "safe areas" where only one political and social viewpoint is allowed, get conservative speakers banned on campuses and in other public forums, in an organized and systematic fashion disrupt and create chaos at political rallies and other events, and simply deny the basics of democracy and free speech and remind me of the book burners of the 30s.