Your Neighbor, The Anti-Christ - We have degraded so much as a society that it's now encouraged to demonize those you disagree with on just about any issue. If you are pro-choice you are a baby-killer; if you are anti-abortion you are against women's health. It's the politics of winning, running amok. Note to file: when everyone insists on claiming the moral high ground, there ends up being no moral high ground for anyone. It's this mentality that has given rise the the ridiculous "Occupy Movement" on one hand and the equally ridiculous (and dangerous) Tea Party on the other.
Here's Some Democracy Down Your Throat - We now insist...no we demand...that other people set up democracies even though we arguably don't have one ourselves anyway (mainly because we are too lazy to vote). It's a pretty simply proposition actually: Democracy only works when people actually want it, and it's nothing more than arrogance on our part to think otherwise.
It's Off-Budget - We have politicians on one hand that insist on offsetting every bit of domestic spending with cuts but don't seem to mind spending trillions to fund foreign wars on the other. See above: we have to stop insisting that the rest of world wants to be like us (which I think is at least some of the reason why some really don't like us or our way of life). If it were up to me, there wouldn't be blank checks written out for anything...domestic or otherwise.
Bread And Circuses - More adults probably watch professional sports than vote. Forget about demonizing the Koch Brothers (Right) or George Soros (Left): we have met the enemy and it is ourselves. Want to really "fight the power"? Then vote, and bring someone with you next time.
Praise [insert the name of your favorite deity]! - What to know what's NOT in the Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution? Give up? Okay, here you go: the word "Christian". The word "Christian" is not mentioned in either founding document. There is only a reference to "God". Now why is that? According to some, our founding fathers were all born-again, conservative Christians, but these folks are simply wrong. Our founding fathers were not born-again Christians; if anything, they were mostly Deists who were suspicious of organized religion. They didn't want the United States to be a "Christian" nation (again, if they did, they would have said so...a very conservative point, I might add); rather they wanted the United States to be a nation where any and all could worship or not worship as they see fit. Many seem to forget this basic fact, simply because it plays into their own personal narratives built around demonizing people who are not like them in the first place; see the Tea Party for an example in action.
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