By now, I'm sure we're all familiar with this nut job that went on a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona. I say nut job because he fits the description. While everyone is bickering over whether this guy was a rightist or a leftist based on his personal effects and his Facebook book list, what the findings ultimately show is that this guy is a severely disturbed tin foil hatter whose only political beliefs are rooted in a very generic conflict based ideology where everyone is either an oppressor or, like him, oppressed. As a result, his political beliefs are not right versus left, but rather, superior versus subordinate. To dumb it down even more for you, the kid has a problem with authority in all of its forms. It's the one factor that unites Hitler, Marx, and Alex Jones.
Well, still, the debate rages on and every Tea Party group in the country is sending out mass e-mails condemning the massive shooting... well, perhaps I spoke too fast. ALMOST every Tea Party group. You see, there's always an exception and the tin foil hatters in Northwest Indiana's group still haven't gotten around to it. Maybe they'r still in mourning that all of the Democrats they backed for political office lost their races.
Still, when I get e-mails from groups in Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, SW Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Iowa, and Illinois groups and not from our local group, you know there's a problem. The problem is that our local group is dead and the few idiots left in their ranks are silent sympathizers of the kid's "everything is oppressing me" tin foil hat ideology.
There might well be a condemnation of at least the act of shooting now just to prove me wrong, but it's sad that I have to be the catalyst of such a message.
