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""It's too late. Witness the ridiculous spectacle of a Republican president of the Protestant Christian faith hosting a Muslim feast within weeks of a murderous terrorist attack perpetrated by Muslims. Case closed.""

You can't be that much of a fatalist. If people like us capitulate, who will do the fighting...I for one give up when I become fertilizer.

I'm afraid I am. The United States no longer bears even a close resemblance to a constitutional, federalist republic. It is, in every other aspect, a social democracy which activates its electoral college every four years to select the head of the executive branch. Even so, the votes by the electoral college are pre-ordained by the popular votes of the states and are weighted according to population.

In order to gain power in a social democracy, you have to appeal to the largest possible number of voters. In practical effect, this means appealing to the largest of, and the largest number of, various voting blocs, whether based on socio-economic strata, gender, sexuality, or race. All this is done, of course, in competition with the other political party also trying to appeal to the largest possible number of voting blocs.

You see where I'm heading?

. If people like us capitulate, who will do the fighting...I for one give up when I become fertilizer.

What will the salt be salted with if it loses its flavor? -Tom
Stay the course,- Reagan
(Matthew ch5 line 13)

I for one give up when I become fertilizer.

In the words of Winston Churchill:

Never surrender. Never surrender. NEVER SURRENDER!

Shalom.