The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.