If you need "wake-up calls" and "cold splashes of reality", then by all means, avail yourself. To further
torture and overwork the metaphor, I woke up in the cold, I'll die in the cold, I live on the bits of warmth,
like a lot of people do. One way the right-wing (as demonstrated in all the Psych Ops studies) has kept us
at bay is by defeating us before we even get going. When you add to that, you're only doing the work for them.
The "wake up call people" are attacking a large section of their own base when they use this kind
of sustained invective. And if you care more about embracing your "wake up call" than properly addressing the
requirements of the people to whom you are addressing your comments, then you pretty much deserve the result *you* get.

Not everyone is like you. Speak to your own people who need wake-up calls. We each talk
to our own, which is why I made the point.