These are the times

Are you impressed by the finagling, the posturing, the well-dressed actors and politicians designing your future?

Are you willing to give up your rights and the rights of others just to satisfy some vaguely expressed loyalty to religion?

Do you believe that a person's body belongs to the government?

Do you want to gamble your grand children's future ability to breathe and live in a healthy environment on your choice of spray deodorants and lazy dumping of toxic garbage?

Are you comfortable knowing that anyone with fingers can pull the trigger of a gun because that is their right?

Are your heroes lives so distant that you have nothing in common?

Are you a fan of birthing every child conceived and cutting welfare so some die of neglect?

Do you believe a good education should be limited to those wealthy enough to pay for it themselves, so the poor are kept relatively uneducated and ignorant -- and powerless?

Then baby, these are your times!