Is it lost on you that publish a rant, wait for the foreseeable response and then claim those responses take this forum too seriously. That might work if you didn't start the the thread and put down essay complete with the problems like crime and punishment, selective law enforcement, socialism, the persecution of christians, the lamentable acceptance of Islam, the tolerance of weed as if that's what's clogging our racially biased prisone sentences and the collapse of the family. It's like someone on a like minded infotainment show identified you and your demographic, gave you targets to point fingers at and made you nostalgic for an America that never existed in some not so distant past. Or worse, could exist in some not so distant future if you could silence the improperly named progressives. It's not the call for unity with traditional values, it's the demographic you're in putting sandbags at the door and watching the inevitable river rise past point where you can control it.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

you just made my point