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Another great piece...BUT...here's the thing. A large number of people in the USA have a completely different viewpoint. They can't see the danger of what this attempted coup represented.
This comment over at FoxNews.com sums it up:
Blindbat 20 hours ago
Here is what I remember about January 6, 2020. Gas $2.25/gallon, inflation1.75%, no w…
Another great piece...BUT...here's the thing. A large number of people in the USA have a completely different viewpoint. They can't see the danger of what this attempted coup represented.
This comment over at FoxNews.com sums it up:
Blindbat
20 hours ago
Here is what I remember about January 6, 2020. Gas $2.25/gallon, inflation1.75%, no wars, enemies that feared us, a President that could speak in complete sentences and retain a thought for more than 4 seconds, a President that believed in American exceptionalism, secure borders energy independence and a robust economy. How far we have fallen in 18 months!
HERE'S ANOTHER...
Mowerman:
21 hours ago
Rather than have a real investigation into the events of January 6th, looking at all the issues, including what decisions were made to protect the capitol and who made them, this is another sham investigation with a pre-determined outcome with the only Republications on the committee being those that voted to impeach Trump, this is not about finding facts, but about placing blame on Trump and removing any blame that Nancy might have.
I COULD POST MORE...but I won't.
Thank you Ruth for doing what you do. I sincerely hope that Trumpism fades away. I hope that a rational approach to politics will emerge to tackle some of the USA's most urgent problems. But I fear the worst....I fear that as Ruth writes, this is all a pre-game show and authoratarianism will rear its head in ways that many will find inconceiveable.
I will repost one of her key points here - just because it sums things up so succinctly.
Yet the United States is also in an unusually dangerous situation in that the party that conspired in the authoritarian takeover remains unrepentant and continues to spout the Big Lie that justified the coup (the need to "stop the steal" and restore Trump to his rightful place as president).
That elevates the risk of a repeat action.
Not the main point to be sure, but I'm still stuck back on 'a President who could speak in complete sentences.'
Those Fox viewer sentiments that you posted show the danger of a destructive charismatic leader like Trump and the cult that they form around them. Gone are logic, truth, empathy, acceptance of other ideas; gained are confirmation bias, bigotry, post-truth, violence, victimhood and vengeance. Those quotes from Fox were essentially rationalizing fascism. It's sad that they don't even know what fascism is. That's why it's so easy to sell fascism in this nation.
Fox needs to go. They are the amplifiers of the Trump garbage.
You are right. I can't see the danger in people protesting against what they believe is an injustice. The fact that the protest turned violent is not evidence that it was an attempted coup. If it was, then the BLM/Antifa protests/riots of 2020 were also an attempted coup.