{"id":6861,"date":"2014-05-18T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2014-05-18T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:59:35","slug":"partisan-gap-even-extends-to-tragedy-of-nigerian-girls-abuduction-leonard-pitts-jr-miamiherald-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/partisan-gap-even-extends-to-tragedy-of-nigerian-girls-abuduction-leonard-pitts-jr-miamiherald-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan gap even extends to tragedy of Nigerian girls’ abuduction – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Partisan gap even extends to tragedy of Nigerian girls\u2019 abuduction – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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There is something more than usually saddening about that. <\/p>\n

It is a truth curdling into cliche that American politics is riven by a partisan gap, left wing and right wing estranged from one another like the husband and wife in some long, bad marriage. But in its behavior here, the right does not so much seem estranged from a competing ideology as from its own humanity. <\/p>\n

How is this a thing? How is an expression of caring, concern and outrage deemed worthy of mockery and condemnation? Are these people truly that corroded with cynicism and bile? Is their criticism now just a tic, a reflex bypassing thought? Is every damn thing to be reduced to politics? <\/p>\n

Apparently, yes. <\/p>\n

Once upon a time, we put politics to the side when tragedy came. Nowadays, that\u2019s something we seem less and less able \u2014 or willing \u2014 to do. That\u2019s a tragedy in itself. <\/p>\n

Nearly 300 innocent girls were taken by madmen. Celebrities, political figures and everyday people wrote the social media equivalent of a petition to express their concern. That simple gesture begat a controversy \u2014 and gave us a sobering new measurement of that partisan gap. <\/p>\n

Apparently, it\u2019s so wide even compassion cannot get across. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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