This is what makes America weak

Here we are, a full year after one of the most horrible politically motivated shootings in recent history, and we have a liberal, dedicated congresswoman moving forward.
And a conservative victim who was widowed in the attack acting like an ass.

Reading today: "A year after the Tucson shootings that left six dead and 13 injured, one of the survivors has strong feelings about the incident and congresswoman and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly.
That feeling is best described as nausea.
"Every time I see them on TV," George Morris, 77, told the Arizona Republic, "it makes me want to vomit."
Morris, a self-described "ultra-conservative," initially went to Giffords' town hall meeting outside the grocery store in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011, to complain to his congresswoman, who he says kept voting for liberal causes.
However, before Morris had a chance to speak a gunman later identified as Jared Lee Loughner began shooting. Morris' wife, Dorothy, 76, was one of those killed in the rampage, and Morris was hit in the legs and back. Giffords was shot in the head.

He was angry at Giffords' job performance before the shooting, but now Morris is more convinced that she should be removed from office immediately, according to MSNBC.com.
"I think she ought to be thrown out of Congress posthaste," he said. "I do not think she is worthy of serving."

Morris, a retired Marine and airline pilot, was married for 54 years before his wife's death. The two met while they were juniors in high school.
But while he told the Arizona Republic that "no man has ever loved a woman more than I loved my wife," he didn't always agree with her.
"If my wife had a fault, it was she was too concerned about how other people would feel," said Morris, who felt so strongly about his political beliefs that he refused an invitation to have President Barack Obama visit him in his hospital room in the days following the shootings."

The shooting is described by Wikipedia HERE

The incident killed 9 people including a child. The shooter deliberately stalked the group determined to kill the Congresswoman. Yet, this poor man believes that it's the liberals fault... you know, the people who encourage gun control, demand that the mentally ill be treated rather than free to roam, who want more money to pay for health care crisis's like when this exact kind of thing happens. And this man thinks his dead wife's concern for others was a FAULT.

Isn't that pathetic?
How much hate and vitriol, fear and anger can a nation withstand when even those who should understand from first hand loss what their hate creates cannot see?
HOW can normal people advocate violence and link shooting people with political movements and then turn around and say that they don't contribute to the violence?

How can the folks like myself, liberals to the core who believe that we need to take care of everyone, find ANY middle ground with people this greedy, selfish, narrow minded and unChristian?
How can this marine stand himself- His dear wife was probably the most wonderful thing in his life, and he lost someone who was obviously more in tune with why we are on this earth than he is. We are here to care about others.
Without that one thing, then there is NOTHING to stop each of us from just shooting anyone that gets in the way of the things we want, the things we can take, the places we want to be, or the ideologies we want to represent.
After all, if you don't care about others, you are- clinically and medically- a sociopath.

The GOP has spent 20 years now fueling the hate bug, convincing their core that anyone who disagrees with their strange brand of puritanical religion and backwards re-written history that is not worthy to live (and allowing the likes of Ann Coulter and Jeff Beck to SAY THAT out loud) while adding to their base with strange promises of lower taxes but better health care, lower taxes but safer streets, lower taxes but better educational institutions, lower taxes and more jobs but not in this country since every business out there that can has taken the jobs overseas. Permanently.

And there are people so under educated that they listen, and believe.
They believe you can take even more money out of a sluggish system with a dying infrastructure and yet still fix it, and even make improvements.
They also believe that you can make gold from turnips apparently.
And here we are, after all that hate and demanding stupidity creates a murderous rampage, and this bereft marine widower actually wants to INCREASE the hate.

Last year, Sarah Palin’s PAC posted a map with gun cross-hairs over the districts of several Democrats who voted for health care reform, including Giffords. Sarah PAC appears to have taken the page down today, but a screenshot is here:

There is a great liberal biased book written by someone who looked at the incredible hate against Gifford fostered by Sarah Palin and her insane bid for attention called "A Safeway In Arizona". It backs up my feelings that there is no 'mending' to be had in our country.


Sarah Palin, the former vice-Presidential candidate, told voters: "Don't retreat – reload". That's disgusting, and worse, she's still walking around free. She should have been arrested.
Then she had the balls to turn around and post this:

On Facebook she offered her “sincere condolences“:

My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona.

On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice.

This is ridiculous. To believe this, or even to claim that there is some room to justify this, is impossible, and anyone who tries is either a moron or a hypocrite and a liar. It's time to stand tall and proud and demand that the nuts either back their big asses up, shut up all together, or go to jail for the equivalent of yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater.
A theater full of gun nuts.

Some people are never going to learn, and so long as they cannot see beyond their own fears, there is no way we can reach out and find common ground. So long as they have fuel for their fears from a right wing that stokes it, we cannot even hope to slow this trend down.
THAT makes America weak. But by upholding the rights of our fellow citizens to speak their mind without threats of violence, arresting those who create the atmosphere of hate, and not backing down when the political opposition strives to shut down the government when we elect our leaders, we show the far off the beam right that they and their nervous angry vicious violent brand of ignorance and greed won't be tolerated by the adults around here.
They either work with everyone else in the class, or they sit in the corner. In jail.