The Nature of the Enemy

If you do not believe as we believe, you are our enemy. You are all that is wrong with the world. We incite hatred and intolerance along the internet with our blogs. We want bad things to happen to your kind and take public glee when bad things happen to your ilk.

Am I talking about the Taliban, the "neocons" or the "looney left?"

Without tolerance and rational debate, do we not become the very thing we are fighting?

A person most certainly can be a patriot and still not label themselves a Republican or a Democrat. It's called being an Independent.

Let us never forget that this country was founded by a group of rebels, not a one a 'pub or a dem'. Nevertheless, had we lost the American Revolution, our beloved Founding Founders would be remembered as traitors to the Crown and we would be spelling color "colour."

We should always value our freedoms and our liberties as they were so hard fought for and won. During that first year of 1776 had it not been for the providence of good weather when the colonists needed it and bad weather when the Britons sorely did not need it, the American Revolution surely would not have survived that first year.

After more than 200 years, this wonderful lively experiment of self-governing has continued and every four years we have the potential for bloodless coup. No more revolutions have occurred and although we did endure a civil war, this nation still stands. I ask are we going to let ourselves be defeated by fear, ignorance, and our own very selves because like little children we refuse to get along?

How could we live with ourselves, destroying what so many have given their lives to protect and hold sancrosanct?

Civility, please, let us all give it a try. It is okay to disagree. It is not okay to be hateful, rude and mean.