Many of us were raised in pre-Liberal Apocalypse America – the one in which our parents were largely responsible for reducing real racism to a statistical anomaly.  It was an America populated by people who were not so deluded by a belief in their own superiority that they unilaterally declared themselves the arbiters of the rights of their political opponents.  In that America, it was understood that those practicing religions different from one’s own coexisted without a concealed belief that we deserved to die for our beliefs, and that it was the right of the zealot to act as executioner.  In America, people worked, they earned a living, they paid their own bills, they raised their own children, they taught those children right from wrong, and they expected to be left alone by their neighbors and their government unless they were breaking a law.  It didn’t take a village full of grievance-mongers, predators, criminals, pedophiles, emotional...(Read Full Article)