Politics American style 010911

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A gunman nearly unloaded a semiautomatic weapon at a busy supermarket Saturday during a public gathering for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wounding the Democrat and killing Arizona's chief federal judge and five others in an attempted assassination that left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge.
Twelve others were wounded and all the electronic medias are running LOUD with condemnation, blame, justification or calls for more.

I am sorry for the dead and wounded but I worry about the future victims of radical rhetoric calling for violence.  Left and right radicals are both guilty of letting their mouths run away with ever increasing claims of justification and moral correctness.  The USA has its electoral processes, which have never been totally clean, but today’s processes are more open to manipulation through electronic medias.  There are always those individuals, unable to distinguish between corrupt electioneering and reality that may answer the calls for violence.  Yes there is corruption in government, which begins with corrupt candidates, corrupt self-interests and even corrupt voters.  Clear losers of elections now delay government with calls for recounts, losing all appeals they attempt recall elections on ideological justifications, all of which spend precious tax dollars for limited self interest.

Democracy depends on the votes of an informed public, not voters whose only information comes from a witless twitter pundit.  If you don’t like your government remember your civic lessons, study, learn the facts, participate, write legislators, petition for change, dampen down electioneering rhetoric and use your vote to demand good government.  A citizen must take the time to obtain the good government the USA must have to survive another century. The USA was born on a cry for representation; today it suffers from over representation and lack of services.  Today’s American Revolution should be an informed vote not the guns and bombs of 1776.