by RossValoryRocks » Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:54 am
How about this:
Maybe we should ALL take a step back and quit trying to score some kind of POINTS or "streed cred" posting on a ROCK AND ROLL FORUM and realize that these deaths and the injuries for those who survived were a TRAGEDY perpetrated by a lunatic who didn't have all his brain cell firing correctly, and NOT because he believed or believes in some political side.
We should listen to the President...ALL of us...the vitriol has to stop. PERIOD. When we are SO busy shouting at each other we can't here the whispers of our humanity. The little inner voice in all of us that drives us to great things, that drives us to find solutions to problems, support one another, no matter our political leanings and RISE above moments like this and come together to make our country BETTER.
Stupid targets on websites, blathering on about who said what, and what it means (if it really means anything), throwing statistics from one place that contradict stats from another that are then refuted ad nauseum from yet others, proclaiming ourselves and our "side" as the "winner" based on nothing but other people who have the same ideals blathering on and on.
When are WE going to stand up and realize that the ONLY winners are those in power, who make their livings off of us thrashing each other. They derive power by pitting us against each other.
We yell at each other, while the fats cats in our government laugh all the way to the bank, until there is NOTHING left for us and our children.
While we should be coming together to get through this tragedy united in the belief that we are BETTER as a people that this one deranged soul has shown, we are not. We on a forum calling each other "lib", "Neo Con", condeming people to hell, bringing up further tragedies like the Nazis calling by others "HimmlerFan" and playing the race card. We should ALL be ashamed.
IT HAS TO STOP. Disagree, sure, but for God's sake does it have to degenerate to what this thread and the Obama 1st Term thread have degenerated to?
STOP. THINK. Realize the person that you are ripping into today, MIGHT be the person who you need to help you up tomorrow. The person who ripped you apart last night may be the person who saves your life today.
Tragedy is closer to all of us, than we ever like to think about. Life is precious, and it is fragile, and can be taken in a moment. By a deliberate act, an accident, or the body just giving out.
We should all be down on our knees and be saying but for the Grace of God (Buddah, Allah, Yaweh, the Creator, the Ultimate) whatever or whomever, go I.