Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

