I think the part of your reply I'll cite (in agreement) is this:
Our priorities are all screwed up[.]
Truly, and the issues go far deeper than terrorism, security agencies, and the military.
There are people on this thread and in this country who, while they're complaining about the freedom-dampening aspects of the Patriot Act, are simultaneously calling for heavier governmental regulation of big businesses (oil, the media, etc).
[Incidentally, individuals claiming that the current President got into office by stealing the election might be well-advised to rethink their willingness to stack yet another bureaucratic layer onto the already-costly federal infrastructure: after all, there are few greater affronts to the Constitution than that in organizations to include the FCC, FTC, FDA, and other bodies, unelected bureaucrats are effectively given lawmaking powers.]
There are people on this thread, and elsewhere, who are slamming the government for not being forthcoming with evidence, and yet devotedly cite - expecting other posters here to swallow, unquestioningly - editorials and opinion pieces as facts. Facts intending to substantiate wild conspiracy theories and half-baked allegations, none of which sound more credible than tales of Iraqi uranium-seeking in Africa are simultaneously being described as. Makes one wonder...or it should, perhaps...what's behind the explosive incidence of the words "truth" and "lie" on these threads recently.
As long as people choose to find offsetting moral vantage points in being either 'Republicrat' or 'Demolican,' 'liberal' or 'conservative,' the wheels will continue to grind. It's when we, as a people, move beyond the easy ideological herding that progress will be made.
And that, my good man, is my opinion.
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