It’s not the budget deficit.
It’s not our underfunded pension program.
It’s not the ever-rising tax rates just to own a house.
It’s not automatic weapons.
It’s not handguns.
It’s not armor-piercing bullets.
It’s not misbehaving kids with tattoo guns.
It’s not marijuana.
It’s not heroin, PCP, cocaine, LSD.
It’s not children huffing paint thinner or glue.
It’s not some new designer drug.
Or even the flawed notion of the war on drugs.
It’s not terrorist attacks.
It’s not chemical weapons.
It’s not nuclear attack.
It’s not dirty bombs.
It’s not hijacked airplanes being flown into buildings.
It’s not H1-N1.
It’s not smallpox.
It’s not equine encephalitis.
It’s not the superflu that will turn your innards to liquid shit.
It’s not HIV.
It’s not cancer.
It’s not diabetes.
It’s not obesity.
It’s not autism.
It’s not parents who won’t vaccinate their children because… who knows.
It’s not the food we eat.
Or the arsenic in our water.
Or the water bottles made from BPA.
–Or even any disposable plastic bottles.
It’s not collapsing bee populations.
It’s not a disappearing middle class.
It’s not stagnant incomes.
Or the ever-growing divide between rich and poor.
It’s not home foreclosures.
It’s not inflation or regressive taxes.
It’s not corporate bailouts, handouts, kickbacks, or subsidies.
It’s not Walmart.
It’s not cheap foreign goods.
It’s not falling education standards.
With rising education costs.
It’s not constant warfare we export to other countries.
It’s not the disabled veterans who come back.
It’s not our loved ones who never come back.
It’s not rising costs to do business.
It’s not the increased number of rules and regulations.
It’s not the rising cost of healthcare.
It’s not politicians who think they can conjure jobs from thin air.
It’s not the ever-present, interfering hand of Washington D.C.
And its ever-encroaching policies upon New Hampshire.
It’s not earthquakes, tidal waves, ice storms, climate change, forest fires, oil shortages, or oil spills,
It’s not the destruction of natural resources. It’s not overcrowding, hungry mouths, or bed bugs.
It’s not racism.
Sexism.
Nationalism.
Or any -ism.
Or bigotry.
Or hate crimes.
It’s not school bullying.
Or teen suicide.
–Or even teen pregnancy.
It’s not the murderers.
It’s not the rapists.
It’s not the child-diddlers.
It’s not the sociopaths.
(–Or the psychopaths.)
It’s not the home-invaders.
It’s not the fraudsters.
It’s not the drunk drivers.
It’s not road rage.
Or people who don’t wash their hands after using the toilet.
It’s not “the Jews.”
Or the atheists.
It’s not the skinheads.
It’s not the radical Muslims.
It’s not the fundamentalist Christians.
It’s not those wacky Scientologists.
It’s not doomsday cults or other people trying to hitch a ride on a comet.
“In the opinion of this Democrat, Free Staters are the single biggest threat the state is facing today.”