The killer’s political bent is about what you would expect: deeper on the “Nuts” end of the “Nuts” / “Sane” axis than any “right” / “left” axis.  No, he is not a “Tea Party” participant — falling outside even the “Nuts / Tea Party” axis of, for instance, some guy I saw on youtube in a “Pass the Bullhorn” session going off on 9/11.  The effect of our politicized culture is that we see stammerings of misinformation — a fake facebook page to tie him in as supporting Obama or quickly and easily verified as false ties to such and such an anti-government right-wing Extremist group.  (The latter is the product of our media culture demand for immediate gratification, the former a product of political defensiveness.)

It is possible to track a lot of his “politics”, such as they are, and they lead out from points from which the Tea Party (such as it is) have drawn.  The influences are re-assembled in a mad pastiche from out of the nation’s broader protest (sure, the tone set by it as well) for a man not in control of his life and painfully aware of that.  Sure, it is political by definition — he shot a politician — and the concerns expressed to the politician were reflections of his existential crisis:

 ”He told me that she opened up the floor for questions and he asked a question. The question was, ‘What is government if words have no meaning?’”  Giffords’ answer, whatever it was, didn’t satisfy Loughner. “He said, ‘Can you believe it, they wouldn’t answer my question,’ and I told him, ‘Dude, no one’s going to answer that,’” Tierney recalls.

From here is the one that puzzles me.  A lot of his pastiche of politics are easily recognized — monetary theories spouted by Congressman Ron Paul (who is a sane man, by the way), conspiracy theories of the Fall of the Nation’s constitutional bearings coming from opponents of the 14th Amendment.  But from “What is government if words have no meaning”, we drip down into:

You don’t allow the government to control grmmar structure.

Where did this one come from?
Well, David Wayne Miller will now enjoy his 15 minutes of fame.
… Even if the young man who attempted to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords probably added his own twist (and I don’t think his proposed educational system would hold up all that well).

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