It was a very profound experience getting in touch with that part of us in all of us human beings that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have including your life for other people for your fellow man.
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.