I know I get passionate and animated about politics, but it's just politics.

Consider some excerpts from this Tommy Sands tune. I'm the worst offender but it's too bad conservatives and liberals can't learn from this.

Though Alan he was Protestant
and Sean was Catholic born
It never made a difference,
for the friendship it was strong
And sometimes in the evening
when we heard the sound of drums
We said it won't divide us,
we will always be the one

For the ground our fathers plowed in,
the soil it is the same
And the places where we say our prayers
have just got different names

But centuries of hatred
have ears that can not hear
An eye for an eye, was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye
till everyone is blind

I don't know where the moral is
or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars
are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders
are not the ones to die
It's Bell and O'Malley
and the likes of you and I