Let’s review what our current leaders and talking heads tell us is dangerous, and compare those things against what they tell us is not dangerous.

Dangerous Not dangerous
- Smoking - Second-hand smoke - Third-hand smoke - Fatty foods - Sugary foods - Not enough food - Meat and meat products - Food insecurity - Oil pipelines - Capitalism - Tea-Party patriots - Christians - Guns - Veterans - Cholesterol - Hetero-normalcy - Traditions - American exceptionalism - ‘Right-wing’ fascism - Videos - Flu season - Bird flu - Swine flu - Racial realities - Cultural appropriation - Sneezing - AIDS - Unsafe sex - George Bush - Rush Limbaugh - The Koch brothers - Conservative thought - Conservative opinion - Conservative protests - Conservative speech - Conservative women - Conservative blacks - Nazis - Republicans - Border controls - Voter registration checks - Government accountability - Government transparency - Privacy laws - Freedom of speech - Stand-your-ground laws - Fly-over country - Political criticism (U.S. only) - Poverty - Profits - Letting big corporations fail - Inequality - Unequal outcomes - ‘Disproportionate’ punishments - Meritocracy - Freedom of association - Rich people (conservatives only) - Self-reliance - White people - White privilege - Acting white - Ebola

Note that if you are accosted by a hater who disputes this accounting because of its apparently lop-sided nature, you may add to the “Not dangerous” list any of the following on an ad hoc basis.

  • Abortion
  • Affirmative action
  • Big government
  • Black mobs
  • Black-on-white crime
  • Career politicians
  • Censorship
  • Civil asset seizures
  • Communism
  • Democracy
  • Federal deficits
  • Federal spending
  • Fiat currency
  • Foreign adventurism
  • Golf
  • Government hand-outs
  • High food prices
  • High gas prices
  • High taxes
  • Illegal immigration
  • Importing Third-world problems
  • Inflation
  • Islamic rape
  • The knock-out ‘game’
  • ‘Left-wing’ fascism
  • Lobbyists
  • Marijuana use
  • Militarized police departments
  • Obamacare
  • ‘Occupy’ protesters
  • One-world government
  • Other Third-World diseases
  • ‘Polar bear’ hunting
  • Progressivism
  • Racial pandering
  • Racial preferences
  • Racial set-asides
  • Radical Islam (AKA Islam)
  • Sex education in kindergarten
  • Socialism
  • Spending limits
  • Spying
  • TSA
  • Unarmed teens
  • Voter fraud
  • Wage controls