Anyone who wants to know why need look no further than "Harry Potter" I think it was specifically in "The Order of the Phoenix". When Harry learns that the evil Voldemort is not dead, and that he is gaining in power, what does the ministry do? They deny the story and attack Harry and Dumbledore for spreading false rumors. They do this to maintain the false impression that they have things under control. This is a comparison that will help explain it to the low information voter.

And what political party did most KKK members hail from? Oh yes, they were democrats...I guess they did get it.

My wife wanted to teach math. She was a math major in college and has worked in highly technical fields for years, but the state deemed math knowledge to be relatively unimportant compared to training in "education". So, this highly qualified woman is forced to join a teacher certification program. After a couple of years of exposure to the education establishment she decided she could not work amongst people with no standards who seemed to be actively reinventing the education process to remove any possible education, she decided it wasn't worth it and went back to her better paying corporate job.

Good point. Can we start getting affirmative action for people with no ambition? After all, it really isn't fair.

I shouldn't just have guns as good as the military's, I should have better...if I can afford them. Of course I can't afford them because they took my money in taxes and bought the best for themselves.

I have a perfect solution...the minimum wage for whites should be $20 per hour, but for blacks and hispanics there would be no minimum. Minority hiring would skyrocket, whites would never be able to establish experience, and soon we would have social justice! Hooray!

But he doesn't favor that. If you restrict the reach of government the entire issue of protected classes goes away.

Fine, be anti gay, I am too, that doesn't mean we need laws to enforce your moral view.

Amen. I like to point out that removing government restriction of an activity is not the same as supporting that activity. I don't use drugs, nor do I reccomend the use of drugs, but I don't think we need a law against them. I am Christian, but I don't need the law to enforce my Christian morality on others. Heck, I even support legalization of prostitution, but that doesn't mean I am pro-prostitution. Libertarianism and conservative values can coexist in one person without conflict. Big government cannot exist with conservative morality without conflict...but that is what the current republican party stands for.

I liketorespond that you can and shold yell "fire" in a cowded movie theater..... if there is a fire. Not doing so would endanger the lives of all those people. And suppose someone took away my ABILITY to yell "fire". They would all burn whil I sat silently by.