The Grim Reaper wrote:Nulla Bellum wrote:
We're so "far right" ... that we feed the truly hungry in the undeveloped world? Damn. I wonder what nice world we'd have if were as liberal and tolerant as France.
The only caricature here is perhaps calling America the "most far right" Western nation when we're subsidizing the welfare (and national defense) of a very large portion of the world at large while France is what? Grumbling about bailing out Greek socialism?
I like the part where this has nothing to do with the topic.
So anyway, this leftist guy showed up at a baseball game the other day and shot a congressman and some staffers, specifically targeted them for their membership in America's dominant right-wing party, his name adding to a fairly large list of attacks upon democratically elected officials carried out by leftists. This isn't to say there isn't a list of American elected officials attacked / killed by a rightist, but in relation to the list of leftists who have attacked / killed American elected officials, the rightist list is remarkably and statistically negligible. When an American elected official, of any political party, is ever attacked / killed, it's a very safe and pro forma prediction the attacker / killer will turn out to be a leftist.
This isn't to say the left or right is more or less violence prone than the other, but specifically looking to violence directed at American elected officials, the left holds that majority. Even if you disqualify the left attacker on left politician violence.
In that light, what is the cause of this violence? Exposure of unhealthy psyches to the revolutionary, anti-government, anti-Establishment rhetoric of the left?
I'm all for returning to the topic. Most of the diversion off topic has been various failed attempts to keep the leftist shooter off that very long list of his fellow leftists that have attacked / killed American elected officials.