Occasionally
someone just writes something so profound that it can’t be expressed any
better. Please read and reread slowly what Mark Z. Barabak of the Los
Angeles Times wrote about the tragedy that occurred Wednesday:
“The
targeted shooting of Republican lawmakers at play yielded a kaleidoscope of
emotions Wednesday — anger, revulsion, horror — but little in the way of
surprise.
The
attack almost seemed a natural, if sick, extension of the virulence that
surrounds the country’s increasingly tribal politics.
As
if to prove it, events quickly settled into a familiar pattern:
finger-pointing, blame-laying, partisan positioning. People today don’t
just disagree. They’ve grown to hate the other side, from President
Donald Trump on down.
Not
necessarily over issues or ideology, which can be debated or leavened by
compromise, but rather as an outgrowth of a deeper pathology, a contempt toward
people for merely existing.”
We
have now become a nation where people hate Democrats for simply being Democrat
and hate Republicans for simply being Republican.
Hopefully,
we as a nation will learn from this tragedy and stop the lunacy.
However,
if past history is any indication, when representative Gabby
Giffords was shot we, as a nation, pledge to change our ways.
Unfortunately it was short lived.
We
again stand at a serious crossroad in our country, and hopefully this time
around, we choose the correct path by permanently eliminating our
politically-charged hatred.
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