I read the comments section of the North Country Now survey question about overriding the property tax cap. A few of the comments were lucid, well thought out objections to overriding the property tax cap. However, the majority of the comments were rude, angry, thoughtless and heartless. Many of those comments were written by people who are either mean-spirited, woefully misinformed or just plain ignorant; and in some cases, a combination of all three! I noticed a pattern in the most vicious comments, using similar phrases like “No, NO, NO; Cut, Cut, Cut; Hell NO” and derogatory language about people on public assistance, Medicaid, food stamps, and county employees. These are the same talking points employed by the Tea Party, Citizens United, and Americans for Prosperity. Perhaps if the people who wrote those inflammatory comments would bother to get their facts right, stop getting their misinformation from Fox News, and learn to write coherent sentences, they might be able to have a rational, even tempered discussion about the property tax cap. Otherwise, they’ll continue to sound like a mob of angry, pitchfork-toting anarchists.