Nepe, Look, I am here on Sajha NOT to please you, and comfort your washed-up sense of politics. I am here to asl questions, sharpen my own thinking and engage with people who hold different views. My attitude is simple: You have a right to your whatever politics, but you have NO right to call people names or hurl adjectives at other people for holding politics that's different from yours. The world, in case you have not noticed in your 40-plus years, does NOT exist to please your sense of politics. And a political view, like yours, that gets pushed WITHOUT a contest or challenges to it is NOT a part of democratic politics. It's a part of Maoist-like indoctrination. And that you wanted on Sajha, didn't you? That you'd chant 'republicanism' on Sajha, and we'll come out and do a 'Tamang Selo' in your honor, and pass around samosas and burfee. Since that didn't happen, you strike back at people like me for being all the negative things without a SHRED of evidence. As a communist, you could NOT handle the fact that there are so MANY ways of slicing and dicing a political view -- no matter how 'right' it seems. And so, like a cat that can't change its meou in old age, you too CANNOT change your trained-by-the-communists-in-your-youth tune. And that's OK. Meantime, let me share this DIFFERENCE again: ****** The fundamental difference between you and me is this: You see things in black and white. I see them in color. Based on that difference, here is how you and I interpret the world. Seeing things in black and white allows you to feel that you are very clear about what is good for everyone. And that certainty makes you feel bold to start calling names to others or making (false) assumptions about people who do NOT see things your way. Seeing things in color allows me to accept different and disagreeable viewpoints as additional data-sets that need to be factored into my decisions/judgment. You can't imagine working together with people who do NOT share your politics. This makes you one-politics-fits-all sort of an ideologue. I remain politics-neutral so long as what gets defended are principles. This makes me able to work on a CASE-By-CASE basis with even those who are my (political) opposites. And, compared to you, that makes me a pragmatist. You appear to hate ambiguities, ambivalence, nuances and complexities when it comes to propounding a particular political philosophy. I revel in all that messiness; while tossing and turning and agonizing over them before reaching a decision after having a brutal yet non-personal contest-of-ideas in my mind or with my friends. I don't know who your role-models are when it comes to making decisions that require interpretation of available evidence and balancing that with judgement. Mine are many -- among them a few of the US Supreme Court Justices. [And speaking of that, I do hope that John Roberts, who strikes me as an excellent candidate who is likely to decide issues on a CASE-by-CASE basis, gets confirmed soon.] So, in summation? You see things in black and white. I see them in color. As the song goes, in its non-romantic strain: "Hamee nadi ka dui kinara . . ." oohi ashu