I'm no socialist, you however, need to wake up to the realities of today's world.
I don't know if you were too busy counting your money and missed it, but the targets of the attacks attacks on 9/11 were far from being symbolic, or random sites. The attacks brought our economy to its knees, they were designed to do so.
They crippled our airline industry, our financial industry, our hospitality industry. They forced us to spend billions of unbudgeted dollars in an attempt to achieve the impossible...secure a free nation from terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, the people who perpetrated these attacks are seen as national heroes in underdeveloped counties because they spend money building schools and hospitals for the poor.
It's a money war, and the ChiCom are entering that war soon, if they haven't already, at a different level.
Go ahead and spend your energies trying to get a conservative dog catcher elected in your home town, the rest of us will do the heavy lifting for the nation.