I really don’t see it as sad.

The clique is so over-the-top that identification is easy, they present a “target rich” environment, and Civil Comments permits both sides to have a say unlike Disqus which provided the means to create parasitic sub-discussions consisting of mocking and back-slapping.

Some of these folks are in their fourth decade of predicting the revolution is imminent, like old Trotskyites living outside the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

It is the wasting of energy on forlorn dreams that is sad.