Flash back- Remember warnings of Tea Party violence?

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GOP leaders, desperate to regain power, know that the only energy in their party is from the farthest of the far right. So Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele declares that he's the Original Teabagger (O.T.) and House Minority John Boehner whips up a frenzy warning that national Romneycare will beget Armageddon.

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Wallowing in victimhood, some so-called conservatives make excuses that these are just the cries of an ignored majority. The liberal media is just highlighting a few bad apples. The Democrats brought this on themselves.

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I don't know how the picture changes if serious violence occurs. My guess is that there will be revulsion for the far right and those who coddled extremism, though they'll quickly attempt to distance themselves from it.

America would catapult into a period of instability. Our moral standing in the world would decline. And we can't afford either of those scenarios.

Politics and public policy are serious business. Emotions run high. But both sides need to draw a line at threats, violence and bigotry.

As a country christened in violent revolution that later endured a bloody civil war, there is a history. Adams and Jefferson verbally crucified each other repeatedly, Brooks caned Sumner on the Senate floor over slavery and four presidents have been assassinated.

But the glorious thing about civilization is learning from the barbarism and fallacies of the past. Let's hope we do so before it's too late.

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