Well, like has been said, since this thread is still open,..............to say that every act of human decency is a political act is just plain nonsense,.......retorhical justification. Conflict is a fact of human nature,.......maybe even human evolution. Oh that it were not so,.......but things are the way they are or else they'd be different. As far as democracy,........I like what Winston Churchill said,...."Democracy is the worst form of goverment,.......except for all the rest". And as a matter of fact the U.S. is not a democracy,........it's a constitutional repulic.

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