<em><a href="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Love-Actually-A-Romantic-Love-Story-love-21838192-1706-960.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1709" title="Love-Actually-A-Romantic-Love-Story-love-21838192-1706-960" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Love-Actually-A-Romantic-Love-Story-love-21838192-1706-960-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>" Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."</em>
<strong>-- OPENING LINES OF "LOVE ACTUALLY"</strong>

If there is one thing that bothers me these days, it's that people seem so angry. Angry and judgmental, quick to say that people who choose to live differently than them are somehow evil.

And of course when you're defending your way of life from evil people, politics becomes brutally important.

Except that it isn't. Politicians on both sides of the aisle spend most of their time defending the status quo. Does anyone in Congress really debate whether the free-market system -- basically unfettered capitalism -- is really good for our country? If you listen to the bleatings about "Obamacare," you would think we had just turned our country over to Karl Marx, Joe Stalin and the rest of the crew. But who benefitted most from the act? The insurance companies, who you may have noticed aren't saying anything bad about it.

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