You have to understand this country has gone through a very polarising six years. From a paradise with good living for all and lots of good times it has become a nation of death and disadvantage; of the rich taking much more than any reasonable share of the countries resources; the corporate interests have slowly eroded any rights to our land held in common by the people through the relentless dismemberment of the environemental protections forged throughout the past hundred years. There is a stifling of free expression and a fog of religous intolerance poisoning the everyday discourse of society. There are disengenous forces of fundamentalism conspiring to hijack the principles that dictate who and what we are as a nation and of which we have struggled so hard for so many years to abide in. Freedom of thought and expression has become a target of people without integrity based upon pushing a selfish agenda based on greed and accumulating power.
People with small minds who cannot accept the control of their own lives turn that priviledge over to groups of narrow minded ideologues spouting nonsensical rules of behaviour for all of society like they have some personal mandate from some omniscient being. Violating the most sacred tenents of our founding fathers in order to behave like weak and powerless sheep in the name of some phanthom moral imperitive. Sacrificing their roles as independant thinkers in order to become ameoba like followers of specious political hucksters and psuedo religous jive artists who seek to twist and distort the political process by manipulating the spineless with cheapjack philosophies designed to rope a dope the most vulnerable and emotionally insipid amongst us and use that power of the feckless zombie vote to accomplish their nefarious ends.
This execution of a long standing plan by the wealthy in concert with the religous organisations to acquire and share the power and resources of the people amongst a small few of the selected is running up against a small but dedicated groundswell of real and genuine Americans who believe in the rights of all citizens to decide their own fate independant of organisations whose purpose is to control and define debate.

There are signs that men who are leaders not followers are begginning to rebel and assert their authority against the self-righteous; self-aggrandizing replicants that have attempted to force their lame agendas on the rest of us. We shall see.
Does that help at all? I have three words to end here; Stem Cell Research. They can't stop it because there are enough men left with independant minds and personal integrity who refuse to become subject to some collection of spineless supplicants and to do battle for the cuases that promote the independance of humanity.