"Take Our Country Back"??--From WHOM??

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around a lot of what's going on in the political world, at least in America, today. There's a large hue and cry to "take our country back!" that makes me ask...from whom? When did they apparently "steal" it? If we're looking at election results, the "whom" MUST be...the majority of voters. After all, it is the MAJORITY of the voters who have elected our President, our Senators and Representatives. Since one of the basic premises of our constitutional form of government is that the person who wins a plurality of the votes is entitled to hold the office, how is it that our country was "taken" from anyone? If anything, the score is that we voted, somebody won, and somebody lost...simple as that. Nothing was TAKEN from anyone. Just because your candidate or party didn't win, it doesn't mean that anything was TAKEN from you. It wasn't a palace coup, it was an election...and the majority of those who chose to exercise their right to vote simply didn't find your candidate more appealing than the candidate who won. So be adult enough to admit that, and let's drop the pretense that anything was TAKEN from anyone.

Then there's the people who are following candidates such as Republican Rick Santorum, who apparently want to put Christian values into our laws. I suppose that Mr. Santorum and his followers believe that laws abridging the rights of non-Christians to follow THEIR religious beliefs would somehow pass coustitutional muster...yet I fail to see how. In fact, there are state legislatures these days that are considering laws that would ban Muslim "sharia law" form being effective in America...and yet these same folks would want us to live under THEIR religious laws. I believe that the Constitution's first amendment provisions forbidding any laws that would abridge an individual's right to exercise their religious beliefs should be sufficient to cover then needs of our nation.

Conservatives rail that the right to pray has been taken away from our school children. Actually, the "right" of a teacher to FORCE any child to pray in school has been taken away; that's all that has been "lost," and I believe that to be a GOOD loss. Look at it this way: Why is it "right" for a teacher to force a child to pray to a Christian God, but yet it's not "right" for a teacher to force a child to face Mecca and pray to Allah? Because "we" are right and "they" are wrong? If that's how you look at the issue, then you apparently don't truly believe in religious freedon in America. No I don't condone stoning women, nor do I condone cutting off hands or other appendages from people; in fact, I think the Bill of Rights' protection against "cruel and unusual punishment" covers that area already.

Don't get me wrong. I have Christian-based religious beliefs, and I, too, think the Muslims are "wrong." But since I have the right to exercise MY beliefs and possibly be "wrong," why shouldn't others in our great land have the same right to be "wrong?"
I believe that's how our Founding Fathers meant for our nation to operate. And I don't believe that the idea of "taking back our country" [with the subtext of imposing "our" religious ideas on others who--for now,anyway--still have the right to believe as they choose, even if it IS something different from our own beliefs] is something that will bring America back to its ideaological roots.