It boggles my bleeding heart brain that some people would use these sort of tactics. Its like it's the meano-liar heads vs. the gentle can't-we just-get-along people. Normally I would be tempted to say it was just exaggeration, but it really seems to be playing out that way. It is becoming harder to resolve my rationalization that all people are generally good. Whatever am I to do. (besides shrink further into cynicism)?