Country's ideals are mixed up

We are a country with our ideals and priorities severely mixed up. We love having things both ways, even though it doesn’t make any sense to do so. We want to have issues go in both directions for issues like abortion, same-sex marriage and etc. and it just doesn’t work.

We have a man charged with a double homicide for killing a pregnant woman, but people who are pro-choice don’t seem to think that the baby is “alive”. That doesn’t seem to make sense to me. If killing them with a gun is murder why isn’t killing them in an office, at the exact same point in life, or development, whatever you want to call it. Kevorkian was jailed for aiding in the suicide of a man in his office, and that was willing! Why aren’t abortionists jailed?

We have people who use the term “law-abiding” to refer to people who are breaking the law just to be here! “Law-abiding illegal immigrants” How does that even come close to making sense? You can’t have someone who breaks the law to come here, be “law abiding”. We say that by opposing these peoples entry, we are “putting money over someone’s life”. But what about our own citizens who are in poverty and starving? And imagine what we could do for those people who want to come here, if we had back the 20 Billion dollars that it costs to have them here. And that number was from a year or two ago, and has surely risen since then. We could with that money send aid to those who need it, in our country and outside.

We have people trying to pass a redundant hate-crime law, while those who were killed on Juneteenth go unnoticed. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m against violence against anyone. But all this hate-crime is going to do is absolutely nothing. It’s not as if it was legal to act out violence against homosexuals to begin with! In fact, with this law, it would be possible to crack down on peaceful anti-homosexual protesters. Now I do know that of course not all protesters are peaceful, but when those who are peaceful are called bigots and homophobes and what have you, that doesn’t sit well with me. And now we offer a path through which to have them arrested, for “hate-crimes.”

Juneteenth, while it had the making of an African American holiday that would’ve been totally acceptable, has turned way from that. It’s become a violent holiday where consistently people are beaten and killed because of the color of their skin. Shouldn’t African Americans especially, who had some of the worst racism and hatred put against them be opposed to this?

We live in a democracy where the majority doesn’t rule. Now please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying. I’m not a white-supremacist right wing neo-nazi. My point is that organizations like the ACLU protect everyone BUT the majority. We live in a country where the minorities are protected with sword and shield, but when the exact same fire is turned upon anyone in the “white Christian majority” the organizations are suspiciously absent. I don’t think that whites or Christians should get any more protection than anyone else, but equality would be nice.