In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.