In order to have politicians give a damn about you in this country, you ahve to be a hyphenated American. African-Americans, Korean-Americans, Arab-Americans, all those people get special consideration as groups. I, myself, have always considered myself and American-American. I could define myself as Jewish-American, but I don't like to define myself with such narrow verbiage. Besides, we all know that anti-Semitism is the last tolerable prejudice, so identifying myself that way is more likely to hurt than help me. I've decided to create a new hyphenated minority group. For evermore you can call me the vanguard of the Individual-Americans. I make my decisions based on my own views, opinions, and knowledge. I don't depend on others to pay my way through tax breaks, I don't depend on the government to get me a job or pay me for being unemployed. I don't vote the party line or do something merely because a group I associate with wants me to. I am an individual, and no one can take that away from me. The moment I feel I am unable to continue to call myself an individual is the moment that both sides of my hyphen go away. At some point there will be liberals in charge of our government, liberals who do their best to take away our individuality and define us by groups, liberals like Hillary Clinton, and at that point I fear that both individual and American will no longer be able to be used. At that point, to call yourself an American would be an insult to our forbears in this great country, the forbears who would be disgusted by the liberties our current government takes with the Constitution, the forebears who would probably listen to a speech by someone like Howard Dean, and consider them an enemy of the state.