The front door is open.  All your most valued items are exposed.  Your dog has a bark collar on. So here’s a question.  If someone walks in and takes something do you call the police?  What if the person walking through the door actually IS the police.  This is hypothetical, sort of.  Let’s brush up on the fourth amendment:

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets requirements for issuing warrants: warrants must be issued by a judge or magistrate, justified by probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and must particularly describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

There’s cause for alarm that this amendment is in jeopardy.  How?  The social issues that are being weighed and analyzed are really nobody’s business.  As one that is so sick of the focus constantly being on the second amendment, no one’s gonna take your gun.  Even the free wheeling liberal VP owns a gun.  Enough focus on this right to arms crap.  Keep your guns. Love your guns. Take them out to lunch and celebrate their purchase dates like a birthday.  I honestly could care less.  But there’s other things waiting for you on your front porch.  It’s the other part of the rights we are/were guaranteed.  You know, those things that really divide us.  If I don’t care about your gun, please stay out of my personal life, my female friend’s uterus, and stop shoving god down my throat.  I tried the christianity deal and in theory its a highly admirable commitment.  But does it enable you to look over the fence or down your nose at the actions of others?  If they impact your property, yes you do.  If not, mind your business.  Someone’s personal choices (or more importantly someone’s right to exercise their choices) isn’t your business.  Do kids have to look at the Ten Commandments in a classroom where they’re learning (hopefully) about the history of their country?  

The most divisive issues our country struggles with are social issues, not policy.  Do you want more money or less money?  Do you want better health care or no health care.  Do you want to get rid of Social Security or receive what you’re entitled to?  That you worked for.  I can’t imagine we’re all not on the same page with all of this.  Let’s throw in foreign policy.  Well that’s different but be sensitive to the fact that yet again even that isn’t our business until it walks through our front door.  Why do our differences provoke anger?  How about employing an “agree to disagree” demeanor and leave it at that?

Politics is not fast food.  There’s no allowance for special orders.  Not a Chinese menu either.  Guess what?  You’ll never have a perfectly tailored fit in this shindig.  I don’t hate Republicans.  Our country is supposed to be a two party system.  If we’re awaiting the day when we all agree we’re wasting our time.  Direct your life as your personal symphony but let me play mine.  Every four years we come back to these tired subjects and it’s ridiculous.  

Let’s employ the “not your business” policy and let your symphony be unique, and please don’t change the key that mine is written in.  Thanks.