It's called group think, and it is vicious - whether amongst Republicans or Democrats. I noticed that first in 1994 when I first got onto the web.

I disagreed with something that was being said on author Stuart Wilde's site. I said it was nonsense. The entire pack came down on my head because Wilde had said it - therefore it must be true.

The joke of this lot was that Wilde came on the site and agreed with me. The pack then attacked him for going back on what he said. His next book basically said what I said.

In the years that I was on Google Plus (some 35,000 followers), over and over again, I would be attacked by either side - regardless of whether what I said accorded with the evidence. There was very definitely a mindset that one repeated what one's leadership said. There appeared to be an inability to stand away from one's crowd.

I recall when Obama set up the Pandemic centre and Ebola was rife in Africa, everybody climbed down my throat because no virus was every going to get to America, and I was, apparently, wrong to prepare for a virus eventually coming to America. That was both liberals and conservatives. Well, um. yes.

At this point, I don't give a shit what anyone says. They want to argue with me, I block them. I have no time for people who simply take on the views of the crowd because they're too scared to stand alone.