PLAYING WITH FIRE
The Tea Party know-nothing wingnuts are for the most part well-intentioned people who think that getting mad is actually doing something constructive. That would be laughably pathetic were they not so committed to their anger. What they don't get is that there are people out there both on the far right AND the far left who feed off that anger.
I say left as well as right. When you put a fire under a pot full of water, the whole pot comes to a boil not just the right or the left side. And when some one individual reaches the boiling point and decides to turn the rhetoric into actions, then we got us a situation.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think most people secretly assume it will be some right-wing nut job who goes ballistic. Sarah Palin certainly acts as if she believes that. Why else would she be so loose with her tongue, coyly using the coded language of the gun culture to get her point across and then saying "Oh well, gosh darn it, I didn't mean THAT."
Well, Sarah, maybe you ought to think twice. And on that second thought you might want to consider that you could just as easily be a target as anyone else. If you don't believe me, just check out Jerry Ford, who had two attempts made on him, both by women. Or Ronald Reagan, who was damn near killed over a woman.
Let me be clear. I am against any sort of political violence. I have seen that movie and trust me, I don't want to see it again and neither do you. I know exactly where I was the day Kennedy was shot. Nobody should want that kind of memory to share with their children.
But there are those out there who work themselves up into such a state of desperation that they believe violent change is the only way out. What you don't want to be is the person or political party that lit the fuse. At that point, the tea party is over.
April 20, 2010
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