I have come to the conclusion that all or most of the contention and fuss over sexuality, abortion, gun control, racism, sexism, etc amongst the people who try to call themselves our leaders has been somewhat misleading. One side vociferously defends homosexuality, minority races and women, unless that person happens to be a conservative, at which point it all goes right out the window. An openly gay aspiring politician in California reaches out to the LGBT community and is met with ridicule and attacked. Because he is running as a Republican. Women who are conservative are mocked and derided by people who claim to care about feminism and women’s rights. The black community admittedly has a serious issue with violence but cannot publicly admit that the real issue is violence within their own community rather than without. Racism has been thrown about so much that it has lost credibility as an invective. If you are a black conservative you get called worse names by other black people. All of this, in my humble opinion, are just tools being used as a means to hold power. I honestly believe that no politician should get more than two terms. There should be no pension when they leave office whatsoever and they should have to live under the same laws the rest of us do. I guess I just see much of the divisiveness as calculated and that much of the outrage as an act to garner desired results. In short, from where I stand on my lovely piece of ground in the once great state of Illinois I don’t really trust the motives of anyone trying to tell me what to think, be it politician or special interests groups. I’m sorry, I’m rambling now, but my frustration is pretty high with both Democrats and Republicans especially here in Illinois where we regularly put our governors in prison. End of rant.