"I've seldom run into a person who likes political debate as much as you do, MAV, and who really gets wrapped up in all the little details, and feels that strongly about it. I kind of wonder why that is?" - LH

Here's a clue, fellow traveller: He loves his Country, takes his responsibility as an American Citizen seriously, gives a darn (and then some) about what kind of society future generations of Americans will enjoy... or have to endure, and is seriously hooked on FREEDOM!!!
I'm not at all ashamed to share these sentiments with MAV, and admire his greater motivation and hard work in articulating the rationale supporting the ideaology we embrace and espouse far more articulately than I.

We get pretty frustrated being "voices in the wilderness" sometimes, striving against the riptide of "political correctness" and popular opinion. We are not trying to win any popularity contests here; just trying, as best we know how, to keep that which American Patriots struggled, suffered, sweat and all too often bled to establish and preserve to pass on from their generations to ours, in hopes that the treasure would be appreciated, preserved, enhanced and passed along again - hopefully without the strife and bloodshed attending preceeding transmissions.
Liberty, dearly bought and tenuously held, demands it's price. I think it was John Quincy ADAMS who stated that "The tree of Liberty must occasionally be watered with the blood of Patriots and tyrants; it is it's natural manure (fertilizer)". Many who have never had to live without it seem all too willing to sell her for "security", "getting along", or some other pap. Although that gruesome "manuring" of the Liberty Tree may be inevitable, there are a few of us who would like to put that off as long as possible. So we risk ridicule, contempt, and yes dear hearts, persecution in order to sound the alarm as best we can before complacent Citizens let Liberty slip from their flacid grasp... and her ransom, I assure you, will be most horribly dear.

As to the proposed ultimate solution to all of this being "Love put into action": Now I think that you are really on to something there, my friend! Have you ever heard of the Book of St. John? St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians (2 of em - one of my favorites is II Cor. Ch. 13) and some others you might find with them in a collection of about 66 fairly short "Books".

The ancient Greeks had several words for "Love"; without getting into laborious detail here, the one I think we're looking for here is "Agap'e", which interestingly seems to have been used almost interchangably in various contexts with "photos" or "Light", or "logos" (root of "logic") - "word" or "truth". Notice a pattern here? I did, and figured it deserved some looking into; I sincerely hope that you will too. The pattern blossoms from there, and millions seem to have percieved it as something beautiful.
If we're not careful here, we could turn the next page, and much to our surprise... find that we're both on it. Wouldn't that be somethin'!?