This decision to become a bigot toward a given writer, due to bigoted rejection — as opposed to informed, reasoned rejection — of that writer’s political stance, is psychologically rolling down the shutter to block out a certain type of light.

We all do it, too, because once we know a writer’s politics we tend to interpret everything he or she writes as apologetics for or a sympathy with that political view we can’t stomach.

We feel this way due to today’s strongly partisan politics, where even a hint of resonance with an opposing view suffices as an excuse, or serves as a mandate in fact, to throw symphony out with the bad note.

Knee jerk hair trigger bigotry rules us thanks to the propagandists.

We should all seriously think about what has been done and what is being done to us in the name of political discourse, which has now decayed into a mindless shouting match.