This article takes a good look at the debate surrounding the shooting in Arizona. Oddly, even as some try to seek unity, this event which should have woken the nation up, has been used by the right and the left to continue the the nightmare of near constant debate over which side of the political isle is to blame for all of the nations woes. (Here’s a hint: It isn’t a zero sum equation.)

In my opinion the best line in this article is: “It may just be that modern society is impervious to brilliant flashes of clarity.” So many people have been shot, so many buildings blown up, so many innocent lives lost in the recent history of the increasingly dis-United States of America can get over itself and just work the problem. It seems we have reached that stage of perpetual conflict, like a long standing family feud—or the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, where both sides are so blinded to their own history they have forgotten any common ground. Now any move towards compromise is viewed as weakness by both sides.

So can we sit back, take a breather, and stop this never ending loop of overly inflamed apocalyptic debate, stop using every tragedy as ammunition against our opponents, stop being an America of us versus them and realize that it isn’t the “other guy” that is going to destroy America but the cyclical stupidity that we take for debate in this nation.

[Disclaimer: This was all done from my phone, so please pardon any errors. I wasn’t expecting to write more than a paragraph. It just happened.]