Riddle me this, Batman: How come everybody found it so acceptable to make fun of Terri Schiavo?

There's this silly meme in life, especially in American life wherein everybody believes that if you stay optimistic, if you pray really hard or say 'I believe in fairies' that everything will turn out OK and Tinkerbell won't die. It's childish and lends itself sickeningly to an American exceptionalism that thinks that over here everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds by eliding or stubbornly ignoring all the suffering and injustice that make us just like the rest of the world. This happened during the Schiavo ordeal and now those people are going to have to find who stabbed us in the back and made us lose the war killed Terri and pillory the fuck out of them even if they have to wipe their asses on the Constitution to do it.