>What I have seen, though, is a lot of pathetic doom-and-gloom and sky-is-falling idiocy from the right wing -- people crying about how "my country is done for"

>What I have seen, though, is a lot of pathetic doom-and-gloom and sky-is-falling idiocy from the right wing -- people crying about how "my country is done for" and other such stupidity. This has been my experience. What's really nasty is that it's seemingly unavoidable. I don't subscribe to political feeds, but folks like this lovely lady [1] will find ways to spread their vitriol to anything, even an exoplanet discovery [2]. 1: https://plus.google.com/110015856734255535904 https://plus.google.com/110015856734255535904 2: https://plus.google.com/+SETIInstitute/posts/QRYq51e5cPu https://plus.google.com/+SETIInstitute/posts/QRYq51e5cPu