Notice how no one is talking about drilling for oil anymore? Because we don't WANT to face up to that--oil drilling is eeeeevil, so let's just NOT talk about it.
Similarly, people are trying so hard to talk about illegal immigration in a NICE way, and won't it be just COOL when we all have FREE healthcare?
The center cannot hold, but denial will go on until it just can't anymore, long after the damage has been done.
Anorexia is not dieting and conservation so-called is not an energy policy.
Stance on the Second Amendment has been a non-topic, also.
The scary part of that is if the coming SCOTUS decision does not fall squarely on the founders' intent of an individual right to militarily capable small arms, that leaves the field wide open for a gun-grabbing field day which only the POTUS could stop with the veto.
The current field of candidates gives me no cause for confidence in the event that ruling is incorrect.
This is a winning issue for Republicans--if they'd only use it, along with illegal immigration, national security and the fact that RATS want to destroy the economy with tax increases and resulting unemployment.