To improve Gabrielle Giffords' chances of recovery, surgeons removed part of her skull so that the swelling of her brain doesn't increase the pressure in her head to damaging or lethal levels.
Maybe we should do the same for the nation as a whole.
Jared Loughner remains a cipher, and his mug shot,while having a disturbing quality, doesn't grant any insight into his motivation . He ain't talking.
The details trickling out from the investigation are balanced enough to give "both sides" opportunity to make hay. Didn't belong to a political party, liked the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, loved his community college but thought it unconstitutional, big pothead and drinker who went sober in 2008 and got crazier etc.
I'll predict that we will never get a full understanding of Loughner's "motivation." We may find out that he is schizophrenic, perhaps too find out that he has aspergers. Hell, what if he has a brain tumor?
As the rhetoric heats up, the pressure in the national head grows.
Within hours if not minutes of the shooter's identity being revealed, evil clowns were on Facebook creating fake profiles for Loughner--both as an Obama supporter and a Teabagger.
Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church asshole squad says that Loughner was sent by God and that they will attempt to protest the victims' funerals.
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are sharing their private emails to demonstrate their suffering at the hands of those nasty liberals.
The right is having a hard time maintaining the caring stance, overwhelmed by the urge to kick people while they are down. The liberal left has had to endure years of the Ann Coulter smirk and the Rush Limbaugh bluster as the right punditocracy barely conceals--if it is concealed at all-- its desire for the execution of liberals. The liberal left's justifiable rage is spilling over.
Those truly to the left will catch shit from "both sides," but you know, we are used to it. While those in the mainstream, good Americans all, try to reduce this tragedy to easy explanations and attempt to place blame, we might just consider getting our own shit together and coming up with some solutions for the formidable challenges before us.
--Loosestrife
A cult!
Good blog my friend!