So what does that say about current state of U.S. morality? We are not all depraved, immoral, addicted to pornography, nor necessarily in favor of public sexual displays. We are simply curious people who are still in a reaction phase to a long history of sexual repression. After strait jacket of puritan period and social constraints of following 300 years, pendulum is swinging as it always has. It makes a wide arc until slowly returning to center.

Those who openly seek to legislate morality would do well to recall disastrous social experiment of prohibition, imposed by a righteous and vocal minority, and its permanent legacy of crime, murder, and corruption.

5. Increasing isolation throughout world as perceived "big bully of west" shuns any support which demands shared power and responsible accountability.

6. A decreasing emphasis on job creation as it is no longer a political football and therefore a dead horse. The hope is that unemployed will eventually take minimum wage service and temporary jobs, only widely available positions, and business will reap rewards.

7. The jury is still out on what may happen to a woman's right of choice and committed homosexual unions but we would be well-served to fear cultural values legislated by anyone.

The Have-Nots - jobless, homeless, powerless, and poor - stand to lose what little they have in a nation where wealthy gain ever more power while working class, by thousands, slips permanently below poverty line.

"A society may be defined by how it treats its most vulnerable members."

Who said that and where is he when we need him?