Reply #243: That's why you can't be friends with the "Die quickly" crowd.

[TheKentuckian]

Nothing "benign" about your right to live is not a concern with the wealthy's right to make money.

The modern American attitude about politics is pretty much silly. Of course politics are important, yes important enough to loose sleep and friends over and has always been. We wouldn't even be here if it weren't for the reality that politics can be of paramount importance. Otherwise many of our forefathers would have stayed in the lands of their families for generations on end rather than abandoning all they knew and had to come to a new place where they had the ability to believe and organize as their hearts directed.

I also just flat "don't get it" when someone wants to proactively curtail the rights of others, or destroy our common rights, or to leave us sick or dying, or to cause us to be destitute or to deprive us of our freedom as trivial or something to be "put to the side".