Fair comment. I want mostly to talk about the things that I beleive as real challenges to our democracies, culture and freedoms. The response has been mostly hostile and being called a CCP bot, and determined avoidance of the issues. Not interested in back slapping self congratulatory arsemilking. But am human, and it naturally does hurt when called names, so I harden to those attacks in the belief they are mostly crude attempts to avoid the issues raised.

Our last remaining advantage may be our supposed freedom of speech (is that is even real? it does appear to be here on SNs at least) but we seem mostly incapable of using it to look at the most challenging things. I can understand peoples fear/reluctance to consider these issues but do not accept it.

Perhaps in this I am the village idiot to be laughed at and mocked but as long as I can I will not be silenced because I believe these issues are worthy of attention.