At the moment America has a large number of folks who want to return to the "GOOD OLD DAYS" *.
Arizona has a judge who likes the way it was in 1864. (I am not the females in his family like the fashion of 1864, especially when it is over 110F.)
The speaker of the house wants to create a Theocracy.
He fails to recall it was a theocracy that created the first Boat People.
These folks became the Plymouth Rockers when they ran out of beer.
That is why the US Constitution separates church and state.
That is, America is supposed to thrive and exist in spite of the various flavours of religious nut job.
"Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'" Robin Williams
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* The gold old days were not good at all.
