Dear Editor: Fear, Love and Motivation

Dear Editor,

I would like to lead out with several paragraphs from an article I penned almost 6 years ago. To quote;

“What passes for religion today is largely what drives the political engine of this nation! What people believe about a certain thing motivates them to, say, vote for the lesser of two evils, follow a certain party line, or throw their support behind a certain candidate that promises change. In order to preserve their way of life (as they see it), people will attack, with all their fervor, anything that they view as a threat to that way of life!

The politics of this nation, dysf...