It is fascinating to me that in a country born of revolution like the United States that another revolution appears to be an impossibility.  It is as if the first revolution killed (no pun intended) any possibility of another.  But then if we examine the so called American Revolution it was not a revolution at all but a simple rebellion.  Its aftermath did not usher in a new political culture but rather a variant of the previous one with some of the players and their insignia changed.  So perhaps I shouldn’t be as surprised as I am.  In America the violent reaction to economic conditions is more a psychological release of pent up frustrations.  It remains strongly individualistic.  Channeled into a political movement such energy would exert great power.  Enough power to fuel a revolution and then some.  Instead it explodes into meaningless tragedy.  The shot is fired not at the gates of the Bastille but at the hearts of the innocent.  The result is only sorrow for the victims and anger at a gunman who himself is a victim of a social order bent on convincing its people that not only are they alone and isolated but that that is a good thing, the natural order. 

If only that energy could only be directed against the U. S. Treasury and their accomplices in Congress, the White House and on Wall Street.  We would truly see a new day in America as so often promised.  Instead if the pattern persists all we will see is more funerals.