the president has gone to tucson to join in the mourning for the friends and loved ones murdered in a shooting spree by a nihilistic twenty-something...having mourned friends and loved ones my sympathies are with those who have sustained such horrific losses...all losses are difficult...sudden ones even more so...here is hoping they find some equinamity in all the sorrow...never trust a politician to aid the process though...a few minutes of web searches informs me that there have been eleven murders in chicago so far this year...nine in new york city..and three each in los angeles and indianapolis...those losses were as horrific for the families and friends...why didn't obamaland publicly mourn there? not a lot of political capital to be made there...the public attention isn't riveted to the mundane killings on the six o'clock news...nothing national in scope...no member of the politcal fraternity at risk..no audience...no opportunity to grandstand as a "healer"...no polity to court...politics is a cynical, manipulative business...the talented ones are like good actors who can convince you of the sincerity of the parts they are playing...but it's all in the service of another agenda...by all means we should questiion exactly what we are doing and what kind of people we are and why we are that way...but that searching of interior landscapes shouldn't have benefits for the political class...it should be done as an exploration of our own accountability for these sorts of violent outbursts and how we can change that...not to recharge a president's approval rating...or as a venue for explanations and excuses fron the alaskan grifter and reality tv has-been...they are all made from the same mold...don't let them confuse you.
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