Today is June 3rd 2022 and amazingly people still don’t get it. In the face of all the data there are still people who believe we dodged a bullet on January 6th of 2021. Contrary to popular belief we didn’t dodge a bullet, we were mortally wounded. We recieved no triage and our wounds grew septic and heralded the impending death of the nation.
In medicine there’s something called the golden hour. That’s the time where life saving efforts are most effective. There was no care forthcoming. What should have happened was that the national guard should have immediately been turned out and all suspected of complicity in the surrection should have been detained as national security risk. None of that happened and the central plotters were allowed to fade into the background.
The plotters knew the country better than we knew ourselves. They knew that we did not have the stomach to hold them accountable. Our two tier justice system was hard at work. The little fish would be sacrificed to protect the big fish and the coup would go on in the dark corners of Washington and the halls of state government willing to bend to their will.
The seeds of this started with Nixon’s Presidency. Think of it as a dry run. It was botched by the Watergate discovery but the precedent was set. The little fish were sacrificed for the big fish and the Department of Justice had no stomach for justice for Nixon. The crook we called President was above the law because we were unwilling to hold him to the same standard as other criminals.
The GOP was permanently changed. Rather than being a political party they became the party of power. The party that embraced the southern strategy. The party of division. The only component missing was an unscrupulous candidate for the nation’s highest office willing to tap into the root festering below the service. In 2015 the wait was over. The stage was set for a self involved demigod to take the stage. Enter stage left Donald J. Trump. Trump benefited from a political environment where bigotry and racism was back in vogue. We were coming off 8 years of Barack Obama who was seen as a direct threat to white dominance in America. He was the black man who had become President even though he wasn’t entitled.
Trump with the help of a greedy mainstream media was able to make hate fashionable because it was the white man’s right. A perfect storm was brewing. The GOP under Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell went along without a fight because it meant the realization of what was most important to them, the consolidation of power.
There were no alarm bells when the deconstruction of the Executive branch began the moment Trump assumed office. We had elected a President who had no respect for the Constitution. There was no one to stop him.
Next week the January 6th Committee will hold its first public hearings in Prime time. It won’t mean a thing because we don’t have the will power to do the right thing. People don’t even understand that the system is irretrievably broken. You can’t put Humpty dumpty back together again.
Pay Attention!
Think!!
Eyes Wide 👀 👁 Open!!!
All so true. All so sad.