It was the Conservatives Fault!

The top news of the day continues to be the killings in Tuscon. Of course the liberals are pointing at the Rush Limbaughs of the world and claiming that the "hate language" of the right had something to do with this tragic shooting. "And look at Sara Palin", they exclaim, "she put cross hairs on states where she wanted the Tea Party to win....and now these people in Tuscon are dead!"

I'm sorry.....WHAT????

If we are going to play this liberal game of cause and effect, then lets ask a few more questions.

The Fort Hood shooter who was in the U.S. Military and killed those 12 soldiers last year.....he was reading the Koran. Would the liberals believe we need to get rid of all Korans so this "hatred can stop!"?

Most rapists who are arrested have a porn problem. Would the liberals believe we should purge our society of all porn so we can eliminate rape? Of course not..."that would be an infringement on our freedoms!", they would exclaim.

But as soon as some unemployed, 22 year old with a gun, shoots a democratic congresswoman...it MUST be something to do with the Conservatives!

With that being said, George Will has a good column today that has some pertinent observations about the current situation. He explains that our society now has this deep desire to try and explain the reasons for why some shooter would do what he did.....and that is a fouled exercise.

The craving is for banishing randomness and the inexplicable from human experience. Time was, the gods were useful. What is thunder? The gods are angry. Polytheism was explanatory. People postulated causations.

And still do. Hence: The Tucson shooter was (pick your verb) provoked, triggered, unhinged by today's (pick your noun) rhetoric, vitriol, extremism, "climate of hate."

Demystification of the world opened the way for real science, including the social sciences. And for a modern characteristic. And for charlatans.

A characteristic of many contemporary minds is susceptibility to the superstition that all behavior can be traced to some diagnosable frame of mind that is a product of promptings from the social environment. From which flows a political doctrine: Given clever social engineering, society and people can be perfected. This supposedly is the path to progress. It actually is the crux of progressivism. And it is why there is a reflex to blame conservatives first.

See it here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011003685.html

Lest you believe this is all going to get better as soon as the nation can sit down and have a calm, collected conversation.....think again. The division is going to get worse. And as resources get even tighter and more people struggle with finances, failing schools, falling marriages, bankrupt counties, cutting coveted programs because of lack of funding, etc....the vitriol is only going to get worse.