I'm going to tell you all, we can do better than this. Some say dogs can't look up; I say we all can look up. This isn't an issue of a man's political agenda. It isn't an issue of a murder. It's an issue of the failure that American Society is becoming by not only breeding this kind of hate and ignorance found in Jared Lee Loughner, but also the hate and blame that troubles the rest of the nation. Every minute, a new question is asked. A new finger rises to point at it's opposite political party, and that finger screams with all of it's might that they are to blame for the insanity.
Maybe the Tea Partiers sent hate mail to Gabby Giffords, attacked her office, and protested her victory. A victory well deserved. Maybe they are fools, and maybe they are good. They wish for good, but they make poor decisions. It's their own ignorance. But I know for sure that they're not entirely stupid. First thing's first; regardless of how annoying the tea partier, Gabby Giffords is still a Blue Dog Democrat. She supports a moderate swing on politics, and there is no need to raise hell about that. And to attempt to kill her is not just a mistake beyond asking for retaliation, but it is a cry that the Tea Party is more than just vile idiots, but actual criminals. No one member would want to murder someone like that, even if, they'd realize that it would bring their party down faster than the bullets sent could fly. And then we must remember the little girl, and the other innocents murdered. No tea partier would do that. That's something seen even as a war crime, where a trained professional could remorselessly kill. A Tea Partier isn't a trained professional, if they're an ex-soldier, they would still retain the discipline to not kill the innocent. And a man to say it was a leftist would be just as crazy to make such an assumption.
"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." William Munny (Clint Eastwood) spoke these words in relation to murder; It is indeed true. Many human beings can not stomach murder, much less shooting a child. only the sickest and most twisted of individuals can bare to murder a child; and only those sick and twisted enough would plot their escape to suicide as an aftermath. Jared Lee Loughner was one of these cowards, he had pre-meditated his attack, and he was ready to carry out his master plan. He aimed to kill himself to escape responsibility for what he had done. Only a mad-man would do such a thing. It's a thing we've seen happen a million times over. Those crazed can ONLY resort to cowardice; to give up your life in such a poor and hostile manner, to go down remembered as a coward, a terrorist. The miracle that day was that he couldn't reload, and he couldn't kill himself. The miracle that day was that he could be brought to justice, and we could take him down for what he'd done.
Alas this wasn't just a crazy, and of course, we can not leave it at that as much as we'd like to. He wasn't a product of one political side's delusion, he was a product of many. This man was driven further into a shell of mental instability by a political climate that involved more than just two politicians putting crosshairs over congressional districts. This was a man who was INFECTED by the HATRED that we see everywhere today. It's not one mere act by Sarah Palin; her intelligence and credibility not only lacks such a plot, but the fun pun of crosshairs on districts has been used for ages. It wasn't Rush Limpballs, and it wasn't Glenn Beck. It wasn't Keith Olbermann, Karl Marx, or Ayn Rand.
It was us.
We are ALL to blame for letting our current social climate stoop this low. Even now, we have digressed into a cess pit of hatred, blame, and ignorance. We dribble for facts, historical evidence, the truth, when it's right under our noses. We are BREEDING HATE when we refuse to acknowledge that there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with our country; when you can't have a decent conversation about how things are going economically without passing into a mistake made by a biased political leader. We can't do this. It's not right. If as Americans, we continue to pull ourselves apart; we will see more Jared Lee Loughners; people who rant about the evil of the government! PEOPLE WHO WISH DEATH ON OTHERS FOR THEIR SIMPLE LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS. We can't have this CRAP going on anymore! It's time to put a stop to it, ONCE AND FOR ALL.
WE NEED UNITY.
There is a CURE to this, we don't need the in-fighting anymore. I KNOW that you are tired of this war. A war with no winner. A war against your own people. Liberalism vs. Conservatism has gone on long enough; people always take a stupid side and say somehting about an issue that can easilly be solved by a little hard work. It ain't easy, and if people want to be greedy, it wouldn't be cheap. But, if we can get past getting paid, and improve our financial climate as we would improve our own home, we could get it done. If Liberals and Conservatives would just shut the hell up and work together on creating new ideas to follow and platforms to work, we could get a lot more done, and destroy this senseless climate that breeds violence like mosquitoes.
I am An AMERICAN. To hell with the politics. I don't want to hear about it at all anymore. YOU CAN'T BLAME ONE SIDE AND IGNORE THE OTHER; TO DO SO IS STUPID! There is one thing that we can do to fix this, and that's stuff the finger back in it's holster (or elsewhere if needed, put it down or pull down your own pants or your lovers) and stop the passage of blame when clearly we are all the ones responsible.
"United we stand, Divided we fall." It's an old quotation that doesn't mean two squats anymore to many people. To me, though, it's the change we've been looking for. Since the end of the Revolutionary War, Americans have been on two sides of a fence; today known as Democrat and Republican. What they stand for is irrelevant, as the process has grown entirely inferior. America is dead if we keep this up, DEAD.
My solution is a simple one; Liberals and Conservatives need to put down their guns; they need to put down their words; they need to put down their hands; and they need to start a new revolution against what seperates us all, and we need to unite to repair our country. We aren't safe by hating one another. We aren't safe by passing blame. We aren't safe by encouraging violence; it WILL only create more Jared Lee Loughners.
What WILL work for us, is LOVE, PEACE, TRANQUILITY, AND PROGRESS. Not Progress towards EITHER SIDES agenda, but progress towards REBUILDING the foundations of America, and ensuring that we will have the power to continue to breath for tomorrow.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm sick of breeding hate. I'd say let's make love, not war, but I'd rather say let's just come together and make something useful. Love only lasts so long, but sewing the seeds for a healtier generation tomorrow is essential before we spill babies out onto the tarp.
I say let there be light; but I shall not shine forever. Let the beam illuminate, and mock it's glow.
