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Speaking as one who is prone to rejoice in the deaths of those who have done demonstrable ill, even I think you've wandered past the line here.

Had she been able to remain healthy, and alive, she would be committing as many acts of treason against her won nation as vigorously as the rest of her Democratic colleagues are. She deserves as much acknowledgement as Neville Chamberlain did at the time of his death, one year into the war he made inevitable by his inane actions.

I see three problems with this:

(1) In the absence of positive evidence to the contrary, you assume that she would have behaved as she had indefinitely. (I put the "treason" thing to the side because so far as I know, she never posed for photo ops with Daniel Ortega or the equivalent; however, it's not worth fighting over here.)

(2) In the absence of evidence that she was -- I'm making a generous assumption here -- anything more than complicit in numerous objectively evil legislative acts, this is a brush too broad and too harsh. Put differently, all but the very most deliberate of evildoers deserve some charity when they part from this Earth, regardless of the letter after their name.

(3) Neville Chamberlain was a good, well-intentioned, weak man. He was not evil. I hope his death was mourned.

This overwhelming display of congeniality toward the other side is part and parcel of the reasons the right has been flailing and floundering the last two years.

Again, speaking as someone who has only minimally engaged in that activity (I'll be the first to note that there are those who deserve pillory on their death), there are times when even politics must yield; and if the price of that all-too human act is political loss, so be it.

The enemy, when they fall, deserve no more thought in passing than the dead German soldier at the edge of the roadside in WWII, partially or completely run over by a tank.

He deserved charity and mercy at his death no less than any soldier on a battlefield. God alone knows if he fought for conscription or of his own determination, or some complex mix of motives that might expiate him.

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We are all heroes, you and Boo and I. Hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!

I'll say up front that yes, I am a liberal, and yes, I registered just to ask you the following question, and I really am interested in your response. If the deceased congresswoman is, in your eyes, the equivalent of a soldier serving an enemy nation, what are your feelings about the voters who elected her to office? Assuming they were fully aware of what you consider her treasonous policies, are they not all, by extension, traitors? What's to be done about such traitors?

And again, for moderators who might consider me a troll, I'd hope that you'll consider this not a provocation, but a sincere question from someone who regularly visits your site for the intelligent discussion of opposing views, something in short supply on political sites of all persuasions.

Your sage advice has been noted and filed appropriately.

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We are all heroes, you and Boo and I. Hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!

...that deletion of comments generally only occurs when somebody comes back after being banned; or else when the comment is a duplicate.

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