January 6th and the certification of the American 2024 election passed yesterday without incident. The proceedings were completely normal and routine.
There were no transgender women and childless cat ladies storming the capitol. There were no pro-abortion activists breaking windows. There were no feminists wearing combat gear attacking security guards. There were no Black Lives Matter protesters using their flag poles as lances against the Capitol Police. There were no woke climate change advocates roaming the hallways of the legislative building searching for the Republican speaker of the House. There were no radical, leftist DEI trainers shouting slogans while wearing buffalo robes, blue paint, and horned helmets. There were no wild-eyed Bernie Sanders followers tearing around the building looking for legislators to assault. There were no calls from within the Democratic membership for the hanging of Kamala Harris. President Biden did not exhort insurrectionists to violence in order to “stop the steal.” There were no deaths. Democracy was not imperiled.
No, it all went off as it should: a civil process done with civility and dignity.
I think this tells you most of what you need to know about Biden versus Trump, about the Democratic party and about the Republican party as it is now constituted, and the adherents of each.
I realize that saying this is not in the spirit of reconciliation. Nelson Mandela I am not, it appears. Angry is what I am.(1)
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1. I acknowledge and am grateful to Mike Pence for his courage and his adherence to duty and decency four years ago. That can be taken as a sign that all is not lost.
David says:
1. FUCK RECONCILIATION! There is no need to appease the right.
2. The MAGAt rabble is about to find out “be careful what you wish for” the hard way.
Peter Scott Cameron says:
I understand and share your anger. I cannot find reconciliation in my heart. Nevertheless, unless we fully descend fully into an autocracy, kleptocracy, and/or kakistocracy (government by the worst), at some point there will have to be accounting and even reconciliation if the country and indeed, the planet (climate change) is to survive. I pray there will be great leaders (Mandela, MLK, Gandhi, Carter) to help point the way and help lift us out of this mess. In the meantime, we have to help ourselves and each other.