I didn't respond? Of course I did, it just wasn't the answer you wanted to hear.. call it executing "conservatism 101" the inability to understand beyond a tiny predefined spectrum.
Your questions to me were pointless to argue. The same arguments could be said about the Republicans. Both Republicans and Democrats can be accused of the same problems.
I've said this many times on this forum, the problem is ultimatley campaign finance. Politicians are no longer elected for their experience or intelligence. They are elected by carefully crafted campaign slogans and marketing campaigns. These campaigns are funded by corporations and special interest groups. Since Americans chose to have information given to them as opposed to researching it themselves, this further promotes this system dominated by money fueled marketing. Americans are stupid and lazy, plain and simple. The Romans got stupid and lazy and look where that got them. We are following in their footsteps.
I do not fear religion, I despise it. The reason the Republican party has deteriorated far worse than the Democratic party is because they have focused to much on their "conservative base", a fringe group of fanatical Evangelical wackos. These same wackos hold sway over their congregation of brain washed, unintelligent lemmings to vote for these inept politicians.
Yes, there is a division in this Country and it falls along the lines of people who believe in personal freedom and liberty, and fanatical Christians who want to impose their beliefs much like the Muslim fanatics.
Religion was created by man to hold power over people. If anything it was the very first "government" created by human kind. When people like David Koresh and Jim Jones can conjure a blind following, who is to say Jesus was no different? He was just obviously better at it.
My end point is, anyone believing in a supernatural being is susceptible to believe anything.