It’s time for the people, the “news personalities”, and the fear-based businesses who have been exploiting The Afraid and The Paranoid in this country to stop pumping toxins into our metaphorical water. It’s time to get responsible.
Senator Shelby (Alabama), Senator Wicker (Mississippi) and President Obama have been sent ricin letters. Senator Manchin‘s office in W. Virginia also apparently received a suspicious package. (Manchin is a leader of the background checks bill… Motive behind these “coat-tail attacks” is clear.)
All the letters were easily intercepted in this “clumsy” attempt at scaring people. Two were sent by a person from (no surprise) Mississippi…. who is a likely avid viewer of the NRA webcasts.
I’m quickly losing hope for the general mental stability of the marginalized within American society. (I’m taking about you extreme right-wing/, gun toting pockets of America. You need help.)
Time to stop the right-wing play time.
As you might know about POLITUSIC: we care about MOTIVATION, not necessarily specific acts. Stopping the “Catalyst of Crazy” is the only way to stop the acts of crazy. Focussing solutions on single events is nothing more than putting band aids on the problem of growing extremism in the United States. You have to stop it at the root.
I cannot remember any instances of schoolyards past when even kindergartners acted as illogically, explosively, and with rabid copycat escalation as extremists in America are now; all revolving around hatred of Obama, hatred the Democratic Party by proxy, and the religious-like belief that the ability to own unlimited guns somehow defines freedom.
Business and the right-wing media have been playing with the intelligence and paranoia of the far right wing. It’s a business. In many ways that’s OK, but all business must be responsible in the end. Just like a giant manufacturer eventually decides to decrease the amount of carcinogens they pump into water during the Industrial Revolution, so too must media and fear-mongering business models when what they “manufacturer” starts to get out of control.
It’s time for the people, the “news personalities”, and the fear-based businesses who have been exploiting the Afraid and the Paranoid in this country to stop pumping toxins into our metaphorical water. It’s time to get responsible. Video games and music don’t cause hate crimes, hate speech and “fight back” speech cause hate crimes.
To the political terrorist of America: calm the F down. Honestly. You are tiresome. What you’re doing is not unique. Every time there is a large event, we get throngs of paranoid wackos who piggyback onto the cause and start trying to terrorize society.
To the nervous public who are on the verge of freaking out because things feel unstable: calm the F down. Honestly. If you start to panic, you’ll just add to the fear already in this fear-packed society.
The coat-tailing statement “attacks” like this that we always see after a large event are a pain and they cause a dark feeling: that’s the point of them. I’m sure there are a lot of people who have a sinking feeling right now due to a feeling that the world feels “out of control” – but you will lose. Eventually, you will lose.
Political terrorism never lasts: coat-tailing always fades.
By its nature political terrorism is an act of coat-tailing. Only religious terrorism lasts (bigger issue for another post). What are created here in America by radical groups like the NRA (other than abortion clinic bombings) are not religious terrorists: they are scared political terrorists who are being preached to and emboldened to “fight back” against imaginary monsters. Political terrorists always lose, because eventually – very slowly – common sense will prevail. Thankfully, that will even happen with much of our religious terrorism in America because their issues have been made political issues by the extreme political groups in the United States.
Terrorism is marketing… you all know this, right? It’s no different than a television commercial showing pictures of dead people to try and motivate you to by Viagra. There is no connection to these ricin letters to republican senator Shelby and Obama and the Boston bombings. It’s a political terrorist coat-tailing on the events in Boston.
These acts are done by crazy people. I am in no way being hyperbolic: sane people don’t mail ricin letters to members of the Senate, nor to the President of the United States (especially using their own return mailing address). Let’s say that again: these people are crazy. People who are political terrorist are crazy. They are marginalized, they are scared, they are paranoid, and they are desperate.
End the conspiracies and teach facts to overcome political terrorism. Teach them that the evil Santa Clause they all believe isn’t real.
If you are one of the people out there who are feeling like the government and the U.N. are about to burn down your house: calm down. Start reading news and opinions that exist outside of profit-driven partisanship . You are being manipulated for the purpose of selling products. That’s it. People are trying to sell you something, and they’re using Obama hatred and anti-government rants to do it – so calm down. Get control of yourselves, educate yourselves, and try not to believe what “news channels” and bloggers who live in the woods tell you from the confines of their own information bubbles.
In truth, it doesn’t really matter who sent the ricin letters to President Obama and Senator Shelby. What matters is that people who do such things are unstable, misdirected – and they need help.
Do coat-tail ricin “attacks” make people more afraid? Yes. That’s the purpose. But rather than run away from it, we need to fix it: educate those who refuse to accept the truth about the US government. It’s not tyrannical and the UN won’t take over their homeschool, and stockpiling guns doesn’t make you “more” free. We all have crazies in our own families, right? Talk to them. Send them articles. Send them FACTS. Help get them out of the caves of paranoia.
Take away the canvas of the scared masses onto which whose psyches the NRA and fear mongers paint their monsters.
Educate them. Kill the conspiracies. Bring them out of the margins of society. Stop the cycle of stupidity.
