Well, Rigs, our current "reality" is that most folks in this country consider themselves, ahhhhh, religious... This is the hand that we are playing... And most people according to a recent USA Today poll don't even believe in science anymore as a majority of Americans believe in creationism with Adam and Eve being created less than 10,000 years ago...

Why is this??? Simple... The Ruling Class wants people dumb and at each other's throats so they spend lots of money creating meaningless wedge issues to keep people from seein' that it's not one's believe in evolution v. creationism taht really matters but why it is that their family's income has been stagnant for the last 20 years and why stuff is so expensive at a time when the Ruling Class is telling US that we have never had it so good...

Racism is one of the tools used by the Ruling Class... It's nuthin' new... Goes back to the old therory of "divide and conquer" so they keep US divided... This ain't about Dems or Repubs... It's about the folks who have corraled all the country's assests for themselves...

Yeah, it's easy to say that eductaion can lead US out of this mess and that is absolutely true... But don't count on Boss Hog's school systems that tailor the curriculum to keep kids from learning to think... Most of the teachers came thru the same sytem and aren't able to think either... Oh sure, they are dedicated... I can't fault them tat... But most are completely incapable of independent thought...

And guess what??? One of the great eductationhal tools is Hollywood and Hollywood, contrary to the right wing's pronouncement that it's all a bunch of liberals, ain't makin' the kinds of movies anymore that push people to think... Those days are gone...

So it comes down to having to educate people thru enforcing laws... Yeah, law enforcement can be a powerfull eductaional tool and, at present, is IMO, all we have until the new breed of evangelicals gain a foothold...

No one ever said it was going to be easy to kill Jim CDrow and it's very possible that Jim Crow cannot be killed but we kicked his butt purdy good in the 60's and he's due for another...

Bobert