It seems these days just about everyone has a way of broadcasting their opinions through some sort of media. Which is too bad.

Thanks to the digital revolution, just about every yahoo with the capacity to translate spoken word into literate symbols has the potential to be published, posted or printed. All it seems to take is the motivation (or nerve) and the keen ability to manipulate a keyboard.

Technology has now made voicing your opinion to the entire world easier than restocking your toilet paper and has become just as arbitrary. Ever been to an Internet forum per se?

So if motivation is the only real factor here, what kind of people are so inclined? Extremist more than moderates, fundamentalist more than pragmatics, the obsessed more than the balanced. The discontent over the swinging pendulum between our modern polarized politics only gets wilder and farther flung when these groups play a larger part.

The term becoming more used I believe is “the base.” The religious base, the minority base ... et cetera, et cetera. These are the people so far to one side of the values equation they have become down right inflexible, and thus politically reliable to the party they support. Everyone has a place and a right to be what they wish, but their ignorance and unwillingness to compromise has somehow been mutated into being seen as a positive trait. Its endorsement and exploitation are dangerous affairs for a free society.