How Can This Be?

Left, right, up, down... the "civilization" of human beings has not changed us one bit. We (and I am at times ashamed to include myself) revert to violence and stupidity over and over. What is sad and hard to understand is that this violence and crudity seems to be growing in the US. Has our society come to the point where it is literally falling apart? People like these "gang bangers" have been the scum, the minority - the ones hiding in the dark. Now they're out there for all to see. I don't see how anyone can justify things like this. Now for the inflammatory remarks: Unfortunately, you're right. We see more of it from the left than the right. It's the nature of the beast. Right wingers are... well, right wingers. Religious to some extent, traditionalists, patriotic. Left wingers are "progressive," non traditionalists, globally minded. I'm talking in circles, but I am worried. It's getting worse by the day.

hi debracarey Thats horrible but I thought evil and meanness are not restricted to left or right wings but to evil malicious people. I am naive about a lot of political stuff and stay so as I hate the arguments and meanness you and all your friends on the political interest spew., I ventured there once and gave my opinion and was called names byt you and all the others. why ?because I happen to be a democrat in a republican mylot. I do not like arguing and name calling and being told I am stupid and f ull of it so I stay away. from all of you. on the political interest as according to mos tof yo there is onloy one good anything. ,

How can this be? That's a good question, how can such evil, cruel people walk among us and WHY are they so evil! I'd consider this to be a very reasonable and thoughtful discussion and I'd immediately and without reservation agree with you totally that those threats are indefensible if you'd have left it at that. However...and you KNEW there would be a "however", didn't you Debra...there's a slight problem with your reasoning here. The “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” document was produced during the Bush administration and created on January 23, 2007. This Homeland Security report was actually preceded by a report produced by the Strategic Analysis Group, Homeland Environment and Threat Analysis Division of the DHS concentrated on "leftwing extremism”" (Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade). That tiny little detail was overlooked by the conservatives that went ballistic when the report first came out in 2009. For some unknown reason "the left" didn't flip out over the report about them... http://www.prisonplanet.com/dhs-%E2%80%9Crightwing-extremism%E2%80%9D-document-created-during-bush-administration.html These reports show there are those within our government who realize people from both the "left" and the "right" can be violent, dangerous and intolerant. There are "extremists" on both sides of the political and ideological spectrum and some of them are capable of commiting violent acts and some more are prone to being mean-spirited name calling. I'll go even further and say probably most of those who do these things aren't doing them because of any political view but just because they're nasty people and that nastiness is part of their DNA. I think each of us is a sum of many different parts. Our political leanings are just one tiny part of what we are as a total person. If someone is prone to violent behavior by nature or if they're basically intolerant or nasty, they may be more likely to be triggered by someone whose political leanings happen to be the opposite of what theirs is. In other words, I don't think people are nasty or violent because they're conservative or liberal but a violent liberal may be more inclined to attack a conservative and a violent conservative may be more inclined to attack a liberal. I'm in full agreement with our right to free speech but sometimes I think these social networks like Titter and Facebook take it a bit too far. I mean, anybody can open a Twitter or Facebook account in any name and then pretty much say anything they want to say about anyone. There's always the chance the wrong crazy person will read someone's post and take it upon themselves to act on it. Annie