Put on your kevlar and riot helmet Lady J .. the libs are coming after you.  They strongly believe in Uncle Sam to cure all social ills.  If u do not agree with them they will argue until they're blue in the face.  They will try to convince you that you are not politically correct for u do not agree with them.  We put our faith in God, family, church, and even community.  They put their faith in big government.  All hail Uncle Sam.  Seig Hiel!  LoL  God bless the government! because without it we'd be trogladyte heathen infidels running amuck like idiots on fire.  LoL   

BG:  You should know that most rehab patients are not successful anyway.  Most of the patients stay on drugs.

      

Yeah, I think I may have been a bit simplistic BG.  Sorry.  Should I edit my post dear sister?

So true Steve....I do agree with all.

That would be cheating, Ramone, it would be me doing your thinking for you---but I will be glad to dialogue with you either personally or here on the open forum. 

Sleep well. 

So much better Lav, except that your understanding of what so-called "libs" in this country believe has been colored by the caricatures created by those in opposition.  I don't know ANYone who believes that "Uncle Sam" can cure all social ills.  I DO know many people, including myself, who believe that a just and caring society will care for everyone....and that that includes empowering those who have been disadvantaged in various ways.  And neither do I know anyone who "puts their faith in big government."  I DO know people who believe that government is us--people--banding together to help one another.  If that is "big", it's because we are a big country.   When we go to war, does anyone say, "Oh, you are putting faith in "big government"?  No, we say, we are pulling together as a nation, (at least if it's a just war such as WWII.)  Further, I don't know anyone who specifically believes that the government is appointed by God.  Yes, I believe God allows certain things, some good, some bad--but if I believed governments were appointed by God, I'd have to believe that Hitler and Chairman Mao were appointed by God, and I don't.  I believe our government is elected by the people, some of whom make good decisions based on rational knowledge, some of whom make decisions based on fear and propaganda.  Sometimes, one side takes precedence and sometimes another does.  "Liberals" simply believe that a just and decent society cares for all of its citizens, and have enough grounding in reality to know that Christians cannot and will not be responsible for every social problem.  They also realize that making the world an "us vs. them" proposition does not work, and that only by taking the hands of their neighbors--rich or poor, black or white, Christian or Muslim or atheist, disabled or not, can we go forward, and that by fragmenting and attacking one another we are only weakening our nation and ourselves. 

Take a simple thing like an automobile accident. Two different witnesses observe it, but from opposite sides of the street. As the police investigate, it will sometimes seem as if the two witnesses are not describing the same accident. Yet each one is telling what he or she saw.

In the 1770's, newspapers in Great Britain and the British Colonies in the New World were not reporting on the skirmishes in the colonies the same way. In England it was an 'uprising' between the 'rebels' and the good British soldiers. On the West side of the pond, it was a fight for liberty against the tyrannical oppression of the King and his thugs.

Was it the same war?

In World War II, the Germans and Japanese people were told they were fighting to protect the 'fatherland'. The people in the countries of the Allies were told it was a fight for freedom for all.

In the 1980s Soviet Russia was fighting a war in Afghanistan. The last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989. A civil war continued between the Soviet-supported government and the Mujahideen. Who do you think the USA supported in 1989? Who is the USA fighting against today?

Was the USA wrong then, or wrong now?

In the movie, The Longest Day, there are two consecutive scenes. First, it shows activity in the Allied Headquarters in London, then switches to a similar scene in Nazi Headquarters. In each one, the final sentence uttered by first an Allied soldier, then a German soldier is, "Sometimes I wonder whose side God is on, anyway."

Is my side really God's side and everyone else is wrong? Or, perhaps I should try to listen better?

Trying to understand someone else's view is healthy.  Try it.... you'll like it.....  Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz