Reflections of a stormy petrel

I'd initially written a longer (initial) response. I edited it way down because I didn't want to draft an epistle so early in the morning. I had a paragraph on how the dialogue-addicts' had become close-mindedness, character assassination of opposition, and complicity in horrors. It was just rambly and not too coherent. So I took it out.

But yes, you are quite right there.