Really? Is this what we've come to?

The CNN News article today read, "Dead Bear Wears Obama-Biden Sign". It took me no longer than two seconds to understand that the title said enough. The article told me that some people had attempted to protest Obama's candidacy through a cruel and sick act. It said that the people responsible had shot a bear cub in the head, dragged the animal on to the Western Carolina University campus, and draped two Obama-Biden posters over its perished body. The police contacted the local Wildlife Resources officials to move the body, and help with the investigation. 

Not only was this an act of cruelty, barbarism, inhumanity, viciousness, evil, and just plain wrongness, it was an act against our nation. An act that prominently states that our citizens have lost the true definition and meaning of the word democracy. This act manifests the immaturity and irrationality of our generation today; the generation that will be running this homeland of ours in the near future. The twisted act is not the thing that truly frightens me, it is the fact that this isn't the worst they can do. This was merely a threat. Before long it'll be the real thing, and our country will be in a disarrayed state of chaos and fear. 

Politics used to be exciting, an adrenaline rush! It was a realm in which people were able to express their thoughts, opinions, and morals even. It used to be something that introduced new ideas and systems. Politics made the world a better place! Now one looks at politics and society and sees tabloids, racism, prejudice, uneducated judgments, and corruption. What happened to accepting people's opinions and ideas? Their race and their heritage? Their religion and creed? Has all of that disappeared? Did it even ever exist at all? For some reason, it seems like this type of crime is getting worse and worse. Maybe it's just the media, or maybe I'm just growing up and seeing more of the world for what it is.

But if this is the way the world is, and the occurrence of something so beautiful and so great turning in to something so undesirable and so ugly is common, then I don't want to see it. Seeing the world's beauty and it's creatures being destroyed is not something that is particularly at the top of my to-do list. Maybe ignorance truly is bliss, because the profound act that I read about today is definitely something I would've gladly turned my back to.