Stop telling me now isn’t the right time
When is the right time to hold the spewers of venom and of reprehensible incitement to violence responsible for their behavior?
Oh, right. Never, because it might make someone uncomfortable.
Go ahead, crazy right wing: keep bringing your guns to political events, keep threatening Second Amendment remedies. Worship your guns and feel free to win at the bullet box if you lose at the ballot box. This thing in Tuscon? Just some isolated crazy. And that George Tiller killing? Nothing to do with you. Nor the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building. Nor the guy in Pennsylvania who killed three cops because he was afraid MuslimSocialistNaziObama was going to take his guns. Sure, you preach armed revolt against the government, against doctors who provide women’s health care, against members of the “Democrat Party,” but these terroristic attacks have nothing to do with that. It’s all just talk, right?
No, it isn’t. But we’re not allowed to point out the obvious because it’s “politicizing tragedy.” Only the Right is allowed to politicize tragedy. (Can you say “9/12 Project”?)
Screw this. I refuse to shut up because it makes people uncomfortable. It’s time to stop letting these monsters off the hook. Because the attack in Tuscon wasn’t an isolated incident. It was part of a string of violence which has one thing in common: right wing extremism whipped into a frenzy by mainstream conservative figures every freaking day. Maybe they’ve read The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, or Ayn Rand’s bullshit, but they all have one thing in common with the Tea Party, much of the GOP, and conservative talk radio and television: a violent hatred of government.
No, I won’t stop. Because until the Palins and the Becks and the Boehners and the rest like them stop their inciting rhetoric, the violence won’t stop. It will only get worse.
1 year ago