“We have responsibilities to each other”
Those are the words Peggy Noonan uses to end her WSJ article this week on our increasing American polarization and “great estrangement”. See her entire characteristically thought-provoking article here: http://tinyurl.com/y96ma637
And now it brings terrorism! Now the ratcheting up of our increasing hatred and disrespect (“….We look down on each other, fear each other, increasingly hate each other….”) has led to a terrorist attack in Alexandria, Virginia directed at our elected representatives.
Journalists, other media representatives, our elected representatives have all contributed to this increasingly unacceptable environment. She—and we—ask “….Oh, to have a unifying figure, program or party….” And she understandably concludes we don’t have one. But could the answer come from here: http://www.centristproject.org/ ? Or something like them.
Absent an unlikely immediate and dramatic cultural and environmental change, in all likelihood terrorist attacks will increase in this environment. and not only from foreign extremists.
We should stop waiting for the media and our politicians and our police and security forces to fix this problem. After all, we have ultimate unavoidable respectable responsibilities to each other—to our children, grandchildren, and, yes, on this day to our fathers.
And now it brings terrorism! Now the ratcheting up of our increasing hatred and disrespect (“….We look down on each other, fear each other, increasingly hate each other….”) has led to a terrorist attack in Alexandria, Virginia directed at our elected representatives.
Journalists, other media representatives, our elected representatives have all contributed to this increasingly unacceptable environment. She—and we—ask “….Oh, to have a unifying figure, program or party….” And she understandably concludes we don’t have one. But could the answer come from here: http://www.centristproject.org/ ? Or something like them.
Absent an unlikely immediate and dramatic cultural and environmental change, in all likelihood terrorist attacks will increase in this environment. and not only from foreign extremists.
We should stop waiting for the media and our politicians and our police and security forces to fix this problem. After all, we have ultimate unavoidable respectable responsibilities to each other—to our children, grandchildren, and, yes, on this day to our fathers.
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