Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Guns ain't lipstick.

Given the level of gun violence in the USA, the most controversial issue in the media should be the most popular lipstick color. Instead they talk about pink guns and those available to children.

It is a slippery slope of disaster. See, lipstick doesn't kill, but, guns do and the more guns where people are, the more people die. It is consumerism and populous politics gone bad.

Politics is suppose to drive voters to the polls, but, not to their deaths. In the case of the Republicans, the politics is based in populous voter opinion. Populous anything is marketable. The more popular the product the higher the numbers purchased. The Republicans pride themselves on 'common sense' solutions, hence, consumerism is the basis of Republican politics. "The decision" is something American consumers are hooked on. "The Decision" is a democratic process. If there was only one choice to make when purchasing products, the question would be "What happened to our democracy?"

Policy is not populous. Policy is a STANDARD. Standards do not breed populism. Therefore, Republicans are not interested in policy, they are interested in controversy because it provides a place for "The Decision."

As long as this hideous paradigm takes place in the USA, the gun violence and gun deaths will be realized in higher frequency and numbers. 

The politics, policy and consumerism of DANGER is out of control. Danger is a fact and not a choice. Government is suppose to mitigate danger and eliminate it from citizen lives as a matter of good governance. To accept danger as a COMMODITY in the nation's politics is to provide venues for it to happen.

Those that seek gun control as a matter of policy are correct. It is just that simple. But, now because 'talking about gun control' is creating the danger government wants to avoid, they can't even talk about it. I ask, what has happened to our democracy when we have lost the right to talk about danger and eliminating it while Wall Street profits as citizens die if we do?

There is more than one way to kill a constitution.