I've read a few reflections about how "we" are failing to address the slaughter of innocents that happens in America and no other developed country in the world.
Paul Waldman offers an important corrective. It's not that "America" or "Americans" are helpless before this blood tide of carnage. It's that the Republican Party will not do anything about it.
So when I read something like Josh Marshall's take on our collective impotence, I have to pause. If we had a Democratic President and House and probably 56 or so Democrats in the Senate, we - as a country - could do something.
The problem isn't "America," it's the gun fetishists and their lackeys in the institutional Republican party.
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