Strange USA Politics

Maybe it's time for the USA to recapture some of the passion for freedom that has set the Middle East on fire, over the past couple months. For most of the 20th Century, we let fear of foreign enemies and ideas and people different from us frighten us into turning our backs on the freedom-loving principles that are stated ideals of the US. Ten years into the "War on Terror", we are still falling over ourselves to let a small number if Islamic extremists give government thugs like the TSA license to humiliate us and abrogate our rights at airports and other transportation sites.

Much of this springs from the fear-mongering platforms of both major parties, which we have foolishly given the power to make us choose between two sets of vitally important rights:

- we have the Republican lifestyle police, elected en mass in 2010 on a "small government" platform and now going all out attacking...abortion and gay marriage.

- on the other hand, where justifiably Republicans get a bad rap for being anti-woman because some even oppose abortion in cases of rape, many leading Democrats would not want women to have the option of avoiding rape by carrying a pistol and using it as a last resort (which certainly makes calling them pro-choice a bad joke in my mind).

Come on America, wake up and stop being so easily manipulated and fearful! They only do this to us because we let them turn us on each other so easily...