No one will be surprised by this, but... I'm a liberal. I've mentioned this a few times before, but really... I believe in Government. More importantly, I believe in the United States Government. It's my country, and I honestly do feel that it's good-hearted. However...
I think we lost our way in the past few years. I think that we got terrified by 9/11, and started down the wrong road completely, and one of the biggest signs of that was our willingness to turn a blind eye to torture. (And yes, water-boarding is torture, in my mind.) One of the best parts about the American experiment is our desire to treat everyone equally - we started out seriously shaky in that regard, but we keep getting better and better, more inclusive each generation, but the torture... that was going backwards. Fortunately, we finally got our collective heads together and turned back around.
But now... one of the two major party nominees is saying that we need to go back there. That our enemies consider us weak because we're not willing to be as barbaric as ISIS is. That we need to kill children and families, we need to torture and behead and... I don't know where he means to draw the line, but I know that it's not somewhere I can go. And the fact that people are willing to listen to this man, follow him, vote for him, scares the hell out of me.
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