Some years ago, on a well known liberal campus ( I think it was either Oberlin or wesleyan ) the weather turned unseasonably cold , and a female undergrad , her coats still boxed up, took a white blanket from her bed and wrapped herself up in it for warmth. A young woman wrapped in a white blanket wandering about campus turned into a ku klux klan rally. How did the college-age men and women, people as old as if not older than the soldiers of the revolution, of the civil war, of world war II, respond to that rumor-? By standing in circles, arms wrapped about each other's shoulders, sobbing. Grown-ass men and women confronted with the mere thought of people with differing and hence obnoxious opinions, and all these mental and emotional perpetual children can do is stand in a circle, helplessly sobbing. This happened in the last GWB-first BHO administration, 2005ish-2010ish, somewhere in there.