AriKona  

With the tremendous amount of finger pointing lately, it is hard to know if anyone is responsible for anything anymore.  In a country where the people are supposed to be in charge of telling the government how it should be run, we have dropped the ball and have become dependent on that government.  It is time to stop living in fear and believing that the government is your protectorate and friend and becoming accountable to yourself and fellow citizens and standing up for what you believe.  People have blurred the definition of freedom with liberty thinking they can say and think what they want for personal interest without considering the consequences.  That is liberty, the self-interested person who does not care who they help or hurt.  The freedom we enjoy comes with a price and an accountability to others in what we do and say.  We should have freedom of speech and should respect that as a privilege in so doing considering who is the recipient of our condemnation and recognizing our responsibility to treat them the way we ourselves would want to be treated.  We can express our views without deriding others and criticizing without a solution.  Take the time to think how we can stand back up as a nation of many different people, respecting cultural diversity without dividing the nation against each other based on that diversity.  If we can become one in voice, we can take back the rightful place we were once given of as a government "of the people, by the people and for the people". 
Main points: quit fighting, stand up as one, unify this country, stop the imminent decline!