Why America is going to hell or not.

I guess I'm finally back in a sort of Eminem kind of way. That being I've been silent for sometime, but I guess that circumstances have gathered to make my come back once again.
Now when I talk about circumstances, I guess everyone that will read this post is up to date with the flow of current events in Arizona. Yes in the small town of Tucson, Arizona Saturday the 8th horror shaded the town forever. During a meeting with her constituents congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords a progressive democrat, that had voted for the so called "Obamacare" reform and that was the an essential target on the tea party's list, was wounded during a killing spree that took the life of 6 people of those the chief judge of Arizona a well known progressive voice in the state and a 9 year old girl that happened to be born on the 11th of September 2001. I've took the time to reflect and hear everyone's point of view before posting this, I'm not the one that is in need of a scapegoat for some gain of political points, but the truth is that this incident fatefully shows that the whole system is to be condemned in my point of view much more so then the young man.
First of all as always, before even knowing the really causes that engaged this young mind on a killing spree every media in the country qualified the young man as a monster and very dis-equilibrated mentally. The fact is even if this young man is as some say "crasy" the thing we have to know is what push him to commit such an act. In my point of view the act was not just pure folly far from that. The individual knew very well who he was going to shoot down and try to kill a congresswomen.
A congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords, that had been the target of all of the hate of the political tea party machine, during the fall elections interviewed inhabitants of Tucson said to have rarely seen any such hate campaign in " a town where everyone knows everybody".
The thing is that such hate campaigns are not marginal anymore, since the end of the 2008 election in which things were already turning nasty, with the fake allegations that Obama for having a middle name Hussein was in fact a Muslim, a whole anti-Muslim campaign was produced by the Palin machine during the final weeks of running, a racist xenophobic campaign that made tensions boil up to the boiling point. Then things seemed to cool down a bit and then during the summer of 2009 when the tea party felt that they were losing grasp of the political world, the machine once again decided to unleash hell upon the Obama administration. People would come loaded to town hall meetings, during the protests in Washington during the heath-care debate, photos of Obama as Hitler or as monk were a common view. And today Miss Palin asks herself on national television "how did we get here?"
The fact is that Palin and the entire tea party are not smart enough to answer anyway else so really I'm not going to waste much time on that subject. The fact is that tensions have flared and have cumulated to this horrific point and in the building up to this moment the tea party has played an essential if not central role.
In fact not just the tea party, but the entire American political class with some honorific exceptions (in my view the president himself is not one of them excuse me Mr.President, but we'll get to his case later on, in some other post). The American political class have kept this nation in a horrific gridlock. As we morn the dead in Tucson and all over the nation let us morn also the millions of lives shattered by the gridlock that obstructs Washington, the jobs lost, the soldiers still dying in Afghanistan for no given reason for we have no real plan, the millions of sick that need heath care so bad, but won't see it because the republicans have decided to destroy as always all the reforms the democrats made before them and this visa versa for some years now.
Now take me for no fool, I understand very well that, politics is no easy affair and that consensus is never easy to find, but as I was watching a CNN report the other day, the journalist was ecstatic saying "that the congress had found complete consensus in condemning the murders". We are better then that. It's time to find some common sense as Pain said and in doing so some common ground in this nation.
Just as the end of the year of 2008 was a crisis for the financial world and we had the chance to fix it so Tucson is a crisis in depth for our political system, and now stands before us the opportunity to fix things once and for all, to clean up our political classes and our corridors of congress that have been too full of lobbyists and others of their "genre". An opportunity now stands before us to renew our broken democracy.
The lasts words of Sarah Palin in her address to the nation were very interesting i find "God bless America", it's in fact not time for the "god bless americas" it's time for more for some "whats wrong with America?"

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