So Tonight... My 85+ Year Old Mom Is Sobbing Uncontrollably...

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23. While what happened to the Japanese journalist is horrific,

it not unexpected given the behavior of groups like ISIS. There is not much that you can do about groups like that.

What I find worse, is what is going on in our own country. My Dad and his brothers fought in WWII. One of his brothers was in the Bataan Death March and in a Japanese POW camp. This country is not the country that my father and so many other people's fathers and grandfathers fought for. This country is not what the Founding Fathers fought for. The Conservatives, Republicans, and Tea Party don't care about the masses, they don't care that all Americans should have the same basic human and civil rights, they don't care about the environment, they don't care about quality education, our infrastructure, and so on and so on. The US is supposed to be a civilized, first world country and it really is not anymore. We are marching along the same path that Germany did in the last Century but instead of the Jews, the focus is going to be on minorities, LGBT, and immigrants. The US might end up being to the 21st Century what Germany and Japan were to the 20th Century. It is appalling that this country has fallen so far so fast since WWII.