I was a bit over the top, and everything I posted I've seen advocated here at some time or another.

I'd be interested to know how many Americans attend church 12 times a year. I simply do not believe 76% are practicing in any form.

At the hospice pretty much everyone states "Christian" or "Roman Catholic" as the religious preference. Maybe, just maybe, 1 in 10 welcomes a visit by the chaplain. And that's just a visit, by a person who is dying.

There are Union excesses, but nothing like the WorldCom, Enron or Madoff scandals. And Unions are the ONLY way a worker has to protect himself from the excesses of capital. As it is now the well paid, bonus eating executives make money screwing the worker to the wall. Even in companies losing money due not to Union excesses but management excesses. Blaming Unions for the situation is like blaming a the problems of the banking industry on the oh-so-high wages of the tellers. Greedy tellers with their hands on the shareholders necks wringing every dime out of their benevolent beings.

I advocate teaching about religion, too. It's conservatives who complain that teaching about Islam is the same as prosletyzing.

The Constitution was absolutely clear on separation of Church and State. It was also absolutely clear on "well regulated militias" and private gun ownership, so it is understandable why people are confused. If the Supreme ignores the one, why not the other? Something valid there.

The point I tried to make, and did poorly with, is that the Conservative dream government would look a lot like Mexico. No rights for workers, no protections, no social services.

When the opposite should be true. Government priorities should be the welfare of citizens, including police protections. Way, way down the list should be foreign entanglements, wars, getting Americans killed for the benefit of mega-corporations, etc.