You'll probably have to settle for only getting half back, IMO the better half.
I want my country back too.
I'd surmise that I may be among the older demographic here on Free Republic and this may come off as being an old fogey. But anyway...
I can't fathom just how upside down my country has become in my lifetime.
Years ago, a good host always made sure an ashtray was on the coffee table for guests to enjoy a nice smoke after a hearty meal. Now a smoker has about the same status as racist, perhaps the most evil thing you can call a person nowadays. Worse than a murderer is being a racist.
I well recall when words like "hel**" and "da**" were uttered very infrequently (see Clark Gable in GWTW). Now the f-word is ubiquitous but woe to anyone of my generation who might slip up with the so-called n-word. That's the unforgivable sin nowadays.
And now THIS. A homosexual military! It wasn't all that long ago (at least in my memory) when gay meant happy and carefree. Those are adjectives not applicable in any way to men committing the barnyard acts you cited. What a sick, crazy, mixed up world it's become when the depravity of homosexuality is considered the norm.
You'll probably have to settle for only getting half back, IMO the better half.
I want my country back too.
LOL. I don't believe I have ever called a smoker evil, but I for one, as a non-smoker, am very happy that I can go out to a nice restaurant, bar, or pool hall, without coming home with my eye's watering and my clothes stinking of smoke.
It was even worse going out for a meal back in the UK when I still lived there because most restaurants and bars are far too small to have non-smoking sections, and the tables are practically on top of each other, and I never ceased to be amazed at the number of smokers who would light up from the very start of their meal -- usually the ones who were sitting next to me!