I am proposing a sit down meeting of those on the political right and those on the political left to solve the problems of this nation. We don't have to rely on courts or Congress or states or the President. What we DO have to do is agree on some things and agree to disagree on other WITHOUT ANIMOSITY.

We must address any issue that anyone wants addressed, and once we do that, we must all agree to sign said petition that we write together to be sent to every governor, every state legislator, every federal congressman, the US President, every member of SCOTUS, and all state and federal judges. If that doesn't get some things changed, then we utilize Common Law to effect some changes.

I have listed some areas of discord. Some of you will agree, some will disagree. We will note EVERY comment and will do so in a business like manner

Something to work with.
1. Our worst problem is that our citizens are very divided on what is happening. How do we address that?
2. We have two very strong political views, opposite ends of the pole. To "compromise" means BOTH will give in on some things. In the past this has NEVER, NOT ONCE in my lifetime of 75 years been how "compromise" worked out. It ALWAYS worked out that the Republicans tried to get their ideas heard and ALWAYS caved in to the Democrats. How do we address that?
3. Can we agree that our two major political parties who run everything are poisoned and corrupted beyond the pale? If we cannot agree on this, then we cannot save our nation.
4. Can the conservatives in this country give in to abandon our Constitution? Can the progressives in this country learn to honor it and abide by it? In both cases, I tend to think not. I hope I am wrong about the Progressives. I can assure you the conservatives will NEVER agree to abandon the Constitution - it isn't perfect, but it is as close to perfection as we will ever see provided in today's world.
5. What constitutes decent citizenship? Let's all lay it out on the table, discuss it and decide if we even agree on what makes a good citizen.
6. What about Welfare do we agree on and what do we disagree on? Can we come closer together?
7. Race. I can't believe this has once again become a factor in American politics. I had thought it was a dead issue until Obama took office and now we see b****s ignored when they beat up people, and w****s jailed for doing the exact same thing. Does anyone see this as e******y under the law? I'm totally in favor of e******y in everything provided by government.......is there a liberal living who can say, and mean, the same thing? I doubt it, but I hope I am wrong.
8. States rights and responsibilities. Where does the left stand on this issue? Conservatives are strong about it. It goes hand in hand with Big nanny government. So what should we do about this?
9. Nanny government seems to be cherished by the left and h**ed by the right. I am on the right and I despise big government for several reasons which I will be happy to list should you be interested. For now I will say I will never be content to live with big government primarily because it is unconstitutional, but also because it is horribly incompetent and oppressive. What do we do about this?
10. Many, many Americans live by principle, v**e by principle. Many, many Americans don't live or v**e by principle, but by what they LIKE or WANT. This gets in the way of "compromise" because principles should NOT be infringed.
11. Another conflict is what constitutes personal rights and what constitutes the "right to life"? I.e., a******n on demand. This boils down to a person's religion, a person's rights, what constitutes a person, decency vs degradation. How do we handle this? If we DO NOT handle it and handle it correctly, we are consigning our offspring to hell.
12. There are millions of differences, but if you can contribute any questions and solutions, I'll be happy to join you.

Bottom line: if the citizens could actually come together on some of these issues, we could start telling DC what to do, hold their feet to the fire, and "get'erdone!"

Second bottom line: there will be numerous critics of this post which truly is an attempt to bring us together, not divide us. Our leaders do a good enough job of dividing us. Let's show them we are better than they are - because it is the t***h.

When GWB was President, you heard about the military casualties in Afghanistan almost daily. But with Obama in the White House, the mainstream media has been strangely quiet?

Why is this happening when the statistics show that there have been far more casualties under Obama that there ever was in any year under President Bush? After the inauguration when President Bush relinquished the Presidency over to Obama, there had been 475 American troops k**led in Afghanistan. That figures out to be about 67.86 per year, and the papers were full of the GREAT numbers of troops being wasted in that country.

But from 2008 until the present, there have been 1817 American troops k**led in Afghanistan, which figures out to be an average of 302.8 per year. Now why is it so much more important to daily report casualties that number so few and ignore those that are so many? Would it be that the Democrats control the mainstream media?

I already know the answer to this trivia question but I want to see how many crooked Democrats come to their c*******t leader's defense.

FTA
Barack Obama’s Internal Revenue Service was caught this year targeting conservative groups with harassment that included invasive probes into the content of prayers and unwarranted delays.

That issue is being worked out in court. But the IRS, nevertheless, remains on the attack, proposing new regulations that would silence the president’s critics.

Mathew Staver, founder and chief counsel of Liberty Counsel, said that after “being caught intentionally targeting conservative groups in the prior two e******ns, now the president wants his IRS to totally silence the voices of his political adversaries.”
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IF the IRS isn't stopped from doing this Administration's unconstitutional bidding, I want Congress to defund the IRS. I want them to do it anyway, but THIS information screams it must be done. STOP THE IRS! NOW!

There is t***h that comes from God, and then there is the unfortunate bias of man that reads it from a liberal or conservative perspective. To be divided on the Word like that is not what Christ desired. He desired one faith. The worldliness of labels such as liberal and conservative only help to dilute or distort the message, create unnecessary conflict, and become a boast for man, who can do nothing without God.
Enormous change came with the New Covenant, demolishing both the earthly liberal and conservative views at the time. Read Matthew5:21-48 that radically shifts the societal mores and understandings of the Jews at that time. And then read the beginning of Matthew up to verse 21, were the Beatitudes totally shift man's basic idea of holiness. A great sea change, revolutionary. And then of course the whole way of doing the Jewish faith, once in law and now in Christ, was done away with, including the Ten Commandments (but that is a very long and somewhat complicated discussion for another time).
Yet none of that made Jesus a liberal, or somehow a conservative, for this was God's plan before the foundations of the world were laid, and already in the Word to those who had the eyes to see. Jesus acted out of perfect obedience to the father, not from a liberal or conservative bent.

I don't really believe that Jesus or Satan ever existed. I also don't believe that my own people's mythological characters, Abraham, Sarah, or Moses ever existed. These religious icons were drawn up to make certain points. Human's so-called holy books were drawn up to explain the unexplainable and to get the peasants to "tow the line". If folks didn't toe the line, "Satan"would deal with them. If they remained docile sheep, they would get "pie in the sky". Messiahs, whether Jewish or Christian are just another part of human mythology.