Obama made a great speech and he fulfilled his duty as a president by making the ordinary man reflect on his actions and follow a path of accomodation instead of intolerance. However, this utopia will be shortlived if the other side still is still blinded by the incessant brainwashing that has been happening over these years, and continue to think that the people in power are destroying the country (whereas the people in power and their supporters return the favor and mindset by railing against them without bothering to correct their despicable distortions).

Whether political propoganda was partly responsible for making Jared Loughner hate the government and pushed him to act is a moot point now, the point is that even perfectly sane people have been frothing at the mouth, especially at those townhalls and tea party gatherings. If those people haven't gone past breaking windows and sending threatening letters or letter bombs, then there is high likelihood of somebody doing something more drastic "in order to save the country" (or whatever other delusion they may have). If so many educated and world-wise people can fall under the spell of tea party and get deluded into thinking the stimulus was just pork barrel spending (it saved the country from total devastation), the health care is law about socialism or 'death panels', and that deficits are the biggest problem our country faces and it is what is causing the economy and jobs to stagnate, then the insane nuts are not our only problem.

The problem here is not just the tea party anger stokers, who resort to the lowest of lies to vilify their opponent, it is also the people in power who do not make any attempts to correct the horribly wrong impression and understanding that the 'brainwashed' have of their policies and make them understand the truth and expose the liars. It is the duty of the government to educate the citizens of their policies and explain their actions, but apparently that is above the dignity of people in power. Read my posts below for more details on this garguantan oversight of part of the Obama administration (and other democrats) that is partly responsible for the atmosphere of political hatred in this country.

Watch out for more on this topic, and how Obama can learn from the bravery of Giffords in this regard (and from Christie too).

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