The old saying says the pen is mightier than the sword. That may be true but I'd hate to have a duel armed only with a Bic pen. 

The United States is a schizophrenic nation, and always has been. It is the dynamic tension between opposing ideologies that has kept us from tipping too far one way or the other. We may never like the compromises that are made but we are the beneficiaries of the compromises of the past.

Today compromise has come to mean betrayal, anyone who does not hew to the party ideology, whatever it may be at the moment is seen as a traitor to the cause and is treated as worse than the enemy.

Far left and far right ideologies are very similar, they just differ in how they manipulate the people in the middle. I don't believe in Utopia and too many people on either extreme seem to think they have the blueprint for one. Things can bet better or they can get worse, they will never get perfect.

I prefer to think for myself and draw my own conclusions. I may make some mistakes but that's okay, I'll live and so will everyone else. It's not like lives depend on what I believe.

I won't dwell on local events. I may mention something local but I won't opine on it. I will probably speak more about what is happening in New York City than I do about what is happening here in Nevada. The reason is simple. I don't have to report on New York City so no one will be able to claim that I'm biased one way or the other. It seems people have nothing better to do than spew such claims. 

Any one reading my postings is free to reply. I will respond or not, as I choose. Godwin's law applies. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.