Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
I have to say that I can’t agree with Sarah Palin’s contention that only the individual is responsible for such horrors as we’ve witnessed – while the man who pulled the trigger must pay the price for that action, all the events which led up to the trigger pulling played a roll. And in 2011 America the events which lead up to this and other massacres are varied, and all the result of societal breakdown. It is absurd to think that Sarah Palin’s targets on a map caused this lunatic to go off, but it is obvious that our popular culture’s glorification of violence has gone a long way towards making it more likely that someone will pick up a gun and shoot in to random crowds of Americans.
And as for our coming together and shaking hands after the political battles – that is the usual thing to do after an election. But I doubt that much hand shaking will happen after the next few elections. As I noted earlier, we are a house divided and we have to work out what sort of nation we wish to be. While we’re doing that, rhetoric will remain heated and the ties which bind will grow weak.
Things will get better. This, too, shall pass – but there’s no sense, in my view, of trying to pretend that things are other than as they are. We’re a society in crisis and the crisis must be resolved before we can get together in amity.
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