Blowin-in-the-Wind

T hank you for expressing interest in my opinion. I am very open to reasonable critique...  The following opinion puts me into a VERY unpopular position among my Christian & Liberal friends and associates. I simply ask those reading this to do so with an open mind. I am a progressive, liberal Christian who carries a gun. The 2nd amendment IS important to me because of how I've seen our country become what most of us have always believed could never have become.  The lessons learned from history are being ignored due to our absolute disbelief in what is happening. It is literally inconceivable to most of us that we could ever mirror pre-war Nazi Germany here in the USA. Liberal groups are actively being vilified and painted as evil, demonic, cheating, God hating, baby butchering, lazy, Communist pedophiles who hate the police, hate America & are politically using immigration to stack the ballots and replace the white status quo. This isn't just inflammatory rhetoric; Th...

  We now live in a world where time and money (both inextricably related) are at a premium.  Oftentimes, those whom we have now learned to classify as "The Working Poor" work 80+ hours a week to just simply survive. Unfortunately, responsible parenting  requires a certain level of each; time and money, in order to be able to raise responsible, well adjusted and successful children. It's a simple fact. To force the poor into needing to irresponsibly become parents is cruel and senseless and entirely unreasonable. To force the poor into needing to irresponsibly become parents is to doom entire neighborhoods into blight, crime and violence. To force the poor into needing to irresponsibly become parents is to guarantee our countries standing as having the largest rate of incarceration on the globe be maintained. It's almost like some WANT to have a class of poor and incarcerated people to hate. And these are the same people that will deride the poor and simply declare tha...