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The Morning After
By Charles P. Pierce
at 9:00am
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All indications are that, one way or another, the bombing was a political act. It may have been the political act of madmen, but it was a political act, and it does us no good to pretend as Chris Matthews attempted to do last night that it was not. Somehow, somewhere, this act came from a dark vein of violence in somebody's politics. Those politics may be fashioned from mania, or even sociopathy, but they are fashioned out of politics nonetheless, and of the collapse of the faith that we can govern ourselves as we govern our passions, and that collapse is not the province of the mad or the angry. That collapse is caused by something deeply endemic in our systems and in ourselves. We have tolerated unreasoning hatred for far too long. We have abandoned the rational for the comfortable, and we have abandoned the empirical for the comfortably insane. We have given too much oxygen to the flame. We have given too much
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)stigmatizing language against the mentally ill as the rhetoric of selling a story?
Look at that...5 references to mental illness as disparaging descriptors in 7 sentences that were posted.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)But the bombing has been labelled as terrorism by government at all levels.
That may yet turn out to be wrong, but terrorism is usually not a consequence of impulsiveness.
Terrorism is a political act, done with deliberation and purpose.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Far better to seek out and engage in health care than acting out with violence.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)I love this part:
"I am too old to live my life in fear of dumb people."