We are in difficult times. We are in times of high stress that are not comparable to anything in previous American history.
The tragedy in Arizona is the worst case manifest.
We are all connected in this angry age and it is humbling for someone who has frequently vented and occasionally has tossed out some communication that afterwards - had me pause to consider what atmosphere we create with language. Everyone should know that we have some very shaky personalities in our broad community. They exist in the realm of the Right, they exist in the realm of the Left. They are a small minority but they can be stirred to movement, to violence by a wide variety of forces.
As I sit in this fine little country home and watch TV, a TV that I have been without for about 2 1/2 years though for some reason it seems far longer. In the weeks before I watch the bombs thrown from Left to Right and from Right to Left. I appreciate the local news team at their desks in Portland Maine not that I get my national and world news from them, but they broadcast to the greater community. They have not sided with one arbitrary notion of the political spectrum and foster fear and disrespect of the other. The world has changed since Huntley-Brinkly and Walter Cronkite.
Maybe there will be an awakening, maybe the American's who lost their lives in one of the rarest and worthy exercises in Democracy, this Congress at your Corner in Arizona, will serve the greater purpose of turning us all to a more civil approach to one another and our right's to our political opinions. A correction in our National drift and a cause for all of us to realize that no we are not going to fall into lawlessness and disrespect for life. That all Americans are part of a greater calling and we maybe called on to stand peacefully together despite our Politics on a National level and the politics that may live in our brains.
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