Just when I think I’ve become too cynical or pessimistic, something comes along that makes me wonder if I’m not too accepting of the general drift (warning to sensitive readers: contains anti-American sentiments):
Today, you excoriate, ridicule and ostracize the brave and true among you. Your best investigative journalists are fired from their jobs and ignored. Congress’s few courageous souls are laughed at and dismissed out of hand as crackpots.