rockaction
Footballguy
This was the worst day for our democracy in the days I've been alive. No amount of snark or humor is going to mollify the uneasiness that I and others feel at watching the sight of this. What is the worst about it are threats of life and limb to the President's detractors. Those that served on the right and decided to part ways with the President are now (or should be) under watchful eye. I think of the people in the think tanks and publications on the right, those that have bravely dissented publicly from the beginning. There was always the threat of this, but never did I think the people such willing accomplices and so stupid as to go in for disinformation and conspiracy theories.
This is not a night to rejoice, joke, or be smart. This is a night to mourn the degeneration of the right -- let's face it, the law and order party -- into the chaos and militancy we saw today. The left does not have a monopoly on the tactics they introduced as early as '64, and we will not see the end of this any time immediately. The wounds are too deep, the scars too great. I will have trouble sleeping tonight knowing the many brave men and women that dissented from the President as soon as these things started manifesting themself into anti-democratic positions, and power became only a means to retain more power. They are the ones whose heads he threatened to "put on a pike" earlier in his administration. That those people are around and moving should be a big sigh of relief to all of us. But that said, these things only get worse. There is too much power, money, and influence at stake to ever procure a full mea culpa by responsible parties. The Tucker Carlsons of the world. The Sarah Palins. The GOP idiocracy in general. They will be the ones that will have to be watched as bellwethers. That they may remember their duty as patriots and citizens while standing athwart their own egos and selfishness is what we hope for -- that the better angels among us get voices and the dross get swept from the machinery.
Let us pray.
This is not a night to rejoice, joke, or be smart. This is a night to mourn the degeneration of the right -- let's face it, the law and order party -- into the chaos and militancy we saw today. The left does not have a monopoly on the tactics they introduced as early as '64, and we will not see the end of this any time immediately. The wounds are too deep, the scars too great. I will have trouble sleeping tonight knowing the many brave men and women that dissented from the President as soon as these things started manifesting themself into anti-democratic positions, and power became only a means to retain more power. They are the ones whose heads he threatened to "put on a pike" earlier in his administration. That those people are around and moving should be a big sigh of relief to all of us. But that said, these things only get worse. There is too much power, money, and influence at stake to ever procure a full mea culpa by responsible parties. The Tucker Carlsons of the world. The Sarah Palins. The GOP idiocracy in general. They will be the ones that will have to be watched as bellwethers. That they may remember their duty as patriots and citizens while standing athwart their own egos and selfishness is what we hope for -- that the better angels among us get voices and the dross get swept from the machinery.
Let us pray.
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