The year that was 2020 was so challenging, it apparently decided to leak into January 2021 with an encore act called, ‘violent sedition in America in the interest of overthrowing a free and fair election’.
I could vent and storm on Traitorous Trump and his minions until my fingers bled onto my keyboard. But after more than four years of the Trump dumpster fire, I feel exhausted.
But in short:
A) I’m not remotely surprised.
B) The magnitude of the act should chill the blood and nauseate the stomach of every person who supports democracy. It is a topic that should not be washed from the forefront of our consciousness in a month, in a year or a decade.
C) It isn’t over yet. The body of the American democracy has been poisoned and I can’t hardly gauge how long it will last, how bad the reverberations will be. Although Trump was flushed from the Whitehouse, he, his offspring and cronies will continue to pollute our country for the foreseeable future. We now have something analogous to nearly half our population who say the world is flat. That is not the traditional, ‘loyal political opposition’. – That is a fundamental fractured world view. We are not a country that looks at the same facts and come to different conclusions. We are a country where almost half of the populace have ‘alternate facts‘.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
~ Voltaire
On the plus side: Trump is no longer president. The so-called GOP are diminished in power in both houses. Some righting of wrongs can be undertaken. Hopefully, the foundations of our democracy can he be shored up so that they can better weather the next assault.
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