BroDeal said:
Because the left had their heyday in the 60s and 70s. Then they put away their bongs, passed laws against recreational drugs, and became everything their parents were and more. Now they are left with a bunch youths putting spikes in trees and sneaking into chicken farms to film.
The right on the other hand has become ever more radicalized. Even mainstream right-wing thought is filled with apocalyptic visions of the future and the idea that the country needs to be freed from socialist boogeymen who have taken over the country. You simply do not find acceptance for that sort of thinking on the left, certainly not in the warlike terms that it is commonly expressed by the right.
This. Chapeau, BD.
I may have been the first to mention 'wingnuts' here, but I certainly did not start off the question of who is to blame, the right/left issue, or anyone else. I mentioned the wingnuts only because I had just been reading pages of exactly what BD described above - insane ramblings by uneducated, semi-literates blaming Obama, the Gubmint, Muslims, socialists, liberals, and "foreign ragheads" for the outrage, while at the same time accusing the "lying, distorting mainstream media" of blaming them, the Tea Party, and conservatives for the act.
I have not, till now, expressed any personal opinion about who might have carried out this bombing. None of us has any idea, but everyone has some kind of opinion. Those of us who are sane, look at the few available facts and indications, and then form an opinion that may or may not eventually turn out to be correct. The wingnuts on the other hand, all jump to instant, insane, conspiracy-based conclusions, and immediately accept as
fact some bizarre ranting by some other wingnut. You should have seen the blood lust when the official TP page claimed that a Saudi "suspect" was in custody at a hospital. Even long after the story was debunked as completely false, they were still going apesh!t about Muslims. As Scott, in his capacity as the main representative of the 'other side' here knows perfectly well, when I say 'wingnuts', I specifically mean the crazies, I do not mean every Republican or even every conservative.
I cannot seriously believe for one second that either NK or Al-Q had anything to do with this - not big enough, not deadly enough, why there and on that specific day? I also cannot believe that anyone with any kind of organization was responsible. This looks all over like the action of a lone wolf, or maybe a couple of them. Some expert on CNN said that the fact that the smoke from the explosion was white, rather than black, meant that the explosive was low grade. (I claim no first hand knowledge about explosives.) This would suggest a degree of amateurism, which might reasonably suggest that the perp was young, as well as disturbed.
My best hunch is that this is a lone, home grown whackjob with some specific, imaginary, axe to grind, rather than someone with strong political sentiments for or against one side or the other.
Let us certainly be thankful that despite the many horrendous injuries we've heard about, 'only' three are dead, so far.
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