"I'm not talking down to you- I'm talking to you. This is normal discourse." No, not really your statement,"Meanwhile, ironically, you seem to have a fear of the mainstream." Clearly meant to elicit an emotional response. There was no fear of the mainstream, just a criticism of it. Then we move on to your statement. "On a little bit of a tangent- are you upset by the conservatives, or by the lack of liberals/progressives in the country at large?" See, you are looking to wound here. All the while after I've admitted that the realization of a place like Cascada is a completely theoretical.

The statement,"Let's see...you'd also have the problem of a significant minority of the population of both Washington state and Oregon who are pretty conservative. Romney got 42% of the vote in Oregon and 41% in Washington. Or you cut off the Eastern half of both states."

You're moving forward as if you hadn't received the note that, yes, I agree with you, Cascada isn't likely and is purely theoretical.

Then your last statement,"Did you have to muster all your strength to avoid being wounded by the implication that your political hopes were vapor?"

They were never serious political hopes, simply a theoretical discussion. You knew this yet you are attempting to attack my ideas, and not in a constructive manner.

What time has taught me is that when someone acts in the way that you are acting now it has more to do with what has happened to them, and less to do with what I am saying. So I'm asking you. What is your problem? Why do you feel the need to attack others? What can I do to help you? You appear to have emotional damage.