No Such Thing as Coincidence

Before we go indoctrinating foreign peoples with the enlightened morality of our institutions, perhaps we should be at a point as a society where at our social norms are in accordance with our mission statement.

I am continually awed, living in a "progressive" hub no less, by how unfamiliar we are with the principles of civil rights, and the sovereignty of the individual.  Political correctness in the public arena conforms to institutions. In this broad sense, our institutions - namely our system of government and official dogma - are progressive. 

And yet, it's 2008 in Americana and I had to work on MLK Day, but will undoubtedly have Columbus Day off.  Grown men dismiss presidential candidates based on gender and/or race. Adults who fancy themselves intelligent, and fully expect to have their positions taken seriously, utter racial epithets that I, in a former life, thought reserved only for demonstrative use by teachers during history lessons.