In my mind, the big change in LGF started in 2006, with a spat over creation/evolution. It showed a lot of us that many of our then-fellow lizards were batshit crazy. On top of that, I was in Iraq at the time getting a first hand look at how the Bush policies we supported were working, and not working, and what the cost of right wing government really was. I especially learned to hate the senile tyrant Donald Rumsfeld, who had delayed MRAP deployment because it just didn’t fit with his corporation-dictated procurement strategy. You don’t have to see many blown-up Humvees to really hate the bastard and every corrupt, stupid plot that he and his cronies were part of. Of course, corporations also made the MRAPs but they were part of an out-group in the military-industrial complex while Rummy was an insider’s insider.