So do you say that when people complain about the tactics of gun control advocates? This attitude of "anything goes" is one of the biggest problems in our country today, resulting in absurd degrees of polarization in which its acceptable to just pull nonsense out of one's rear and claim it to be fact.
I'm not saying or suggesting that any of it is right.
But I'm not here to be the morals police either.
I agree with you that the "anything goes" mentality sucks.
It's like a bad rash that politicians on both sides just can't completely cure.
I'm just trying to be realistic here instead of idealistic.
We as a country (in my opinion at least) have already set our own selves up for absurd polarity problems since day one.
This is nothing "new" like the way you make it sound.
Even in the beginning, we were divided during the Revolutionary War.
Some were Rebels or Patriots, and others were Loyalists to the British Crown.
Even Benjamin Franklin's own son, William Franklin, was a Loyalist to the Crown and became completely estranged from his famous father.
Then, we set up a 2-Party system which also pits one group against another.
Then later, we fought over Federal Power -vs- States' Rights.
We had a President who sent Federal troops against his own civilian population.
Then we freed slaves.
Yet, at the same time, we continued anyways to track, hunt, kill and/or capture Native Americans and imprison them in concentration camps that we "politely" called reservations.
All of these things are only just the beginning.
A whole huge list could be created all the way up to modern times today of things that has caused "polarization" among our citizenry.
It will never end.
I guess all I'm trying to say is that there is no "real" black and white simplicity in America and never has been.
It's almost always some shade of gray or another.
It totally sucks, I agree.
But it is what it is.
So when it comes to fighting for and preserving our Constitution and freedoms against those who would gladly strip those Rights from us in a blink of an eye...
I have no problem with keeping up the fight on all fronts, even if it means fighting within those gray areas too.
Holding the moral high-ground is a wonderful goal we should strive for.
However, in my mind, losing the war itself because of it, is just not an option.
War is dirty, horrible, cruel and miserable most times.