  So I get a letter from a guy who read “Confronting Evil” and is furious. He objects to my classifying Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a miscreant. Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan, slaughtered surrendering Union troops in Tennessee and was an all-around hater. But the letter writer says he was only upholding “the war of Southern independence.”
Great.
Then I see some podcast loon personally attacking Charlie Kirk’s widow for her traditional views on family. The nut actually says, “This is why nobody wants to be a Christian.”
Ahem. There are over 2 billion Christians in the world right now.
The question then becomes how many unbalanced people are running around these days? Is the crazy brigade growing or just more visible in the age of social media? Obviously, extremism is supercharged in cyberspace. Wacky stuff gets full frontal.
Nobody really knows if mass neurosis is making deep inroads. What I am certain about is that there are plenty of dangerous people poised to act out. Constraining them might be an unsolvable situation.
Therefore, be careful out there. I am. Read the room before you get comfortable; this is no time to get distracted.
See you this evening for the No Spin News.
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