“Ranters” dare to speak their mind then get labeled as “crackpots”. Remember, ranters are some of the last “free-thinking, free-beings” left on earth. Spewing burning truths and incendiary opinions may be the only real freedom and human dignity that mankind has left.
The truth stings. We typically may not like facing the truth. Ranters are truthful but become scapegoats, driven away to the realm of the “unheard”, branded as extremists and cultists. Society’s punishment is to banish ranters from any kind of position of power or power potential, kind of like what happened to New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, who conceivably got too close to discovering who REALLY killed President John F. Kennedy.
Anyone considered by those in power to be a threat to that power will be considered to be social foes and these foes tend to get their “teeth kicked in”, so to speak, by those in power and control. If a ranter can successfully “spin control” his burning truths and incendiary opinions he can then possibly sway public opinion and control the media that sets out to destroy him but “spinning” may, in itself, too often dilute and weaken the rant and rave by ending up compromising the intent and power of the original rant and rave.