 |
| The ominous tone of Jan. 6 (wikipedia) |
And so the craziness just seems to build. A friend of that family said the deceased were "conservative Christians" who were "hell bent" on Donald Trump winning in 2020.
I will make the editorial comment here that Donald Trump is not worth killing yourself and your family over. Lest you be thinking such things. Stuff that happens "out east" doesn't necessarily stay there, as we in Morris MN discovered a few years back when a Catholic clergy person had to be spirited out of here. He was spirited out "for his own safety," a local LE person explained.
We in western Minnesota have already elected a congressperson who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. A legislator from close to here, Jeff Backer, who used to represent us, voted against condemning the violence at the U.S. capitol.
For most of my life, "conservatives" were people who fundamentally wanted an even keel among us, temperance with an approach to life. Lower taxes? Well yes of course. Strong military? Understandable. Today's conservatives have begun to attack our military because it is allegedly too "woke."
Our old understandings are evaporating. Did you all really want the rioters to "win" on January 6? Did you really want to see the lives of Mike and Karen Pence put in danger? Were you really cheering on the rioters in their assaults on capitol police?
 |
| Michelle Fischbach |
I'm trying to shout from the rooftop here with one major point. Once we get rid of democracy, all bets are off. Maybe you MAGA people will get what you want in the short term. Perhaps just the very short term. And I'm not even sure what you all really want. The family in Pennsylvania literally could not live with a Democratic president. Or, a "Democrat" president as you conservatives would apply your lexicon. It is so "us versus them."
"Internecine" in South Dakota
In South Dakota we are seeing a strange morphing process in political doings. The Republican Party became very strong, obviously. However, politics by definition breeds disagreement. A writer observed there are "internecine" conflicts among South Dakota Republicans now. I probably would not have come up with that word on my own.
The Republican Party took over so much, factions developed within as a replacement for the true two-party system we've always had. I'm reminded of the old "Monty Python Flying Circus" bit where they parodied British government. So there was a "sensible" party, a "silly" party and the fringe "very silly" party. A spokesman for the latter just used a noisemaker to make a point about something.
"Internecine" in South Dakota has devolved to where more coarse or blunt words are used to describe. "Internecine" sounds too civilized. When Republicans take charge there are inevitably "crazies" in the fold who might as well be using noisemakers. I remember in my youth, "crazies" from the right were out there but they were kept marginalized. Like curiosities. Now they must be dealt with. And they really truly could ascend to true power.
Let me just say that in South Dakota, the mainstream media which really does try to be careful, has sort of shrugged and begun calling a spade a spade: you have the "normal" Republicans who respect our traditional processes and decorum. And then - this term actually used - you have the "crazies." The crazies can assert themselves and force others to take them seriously. Leading to what? Well, didn't the 2020 insurrection attempt in D.C. actually flirt with success? Did you not sense that?
And did it not scare you some? What would "success" have really looked like for MAGA, coming out of that day? Should this not have horrified you? Yes it's a cliche but you'll "miss democracy when it's gone." Oh really truly seriously. After the short-term thrill of seeing Trump get his way, what in hell would happen next? Trials with death penalties? Look how Trump got Bill Barr to eat out of his hand for so long.
 |
| Jeff Backer |
The people around Trump began taking on his traits and his attitudes. A psychologist could tell you all about this. Within an organization, the underlings begin taking on the traits of the person at the top. Easily understandable I guess. It happens at the micro level. I have seen it in Morris most notoriously and I won't at this time remind of details. People would be mad about me, again.
Our local residents were not completely de-programmed.
All you MAGA devotees who tune in to Fox News, Tucker Carlson et al., I wish to implore you: You may think Joe Biden is such bad news, but I'd argue he is actually to the right of where our national leaders could end up being, with time. That is because the common folk of the U.S. will begin suffering under the weight of inflation and other economic inequities. History shows vividly that when the adversity of day-to-day life reaches a certain point, things begin happening. Because, they just have to.
People have to eat. A revolution that grows out of these circumstances would manifest itself as from the political left. The leaders would leave no stone unturned. Just study history.
Violence? Terrible to suggest as much, right? So wasn't it terrible when so many Republicans across the country failed to denounce the violence of January 6 in D.C.? Why was it just so hard to condemn that?
So Biden is a lefty? With time you might consider him anything but. Maybe Bernie Sanders is a lefty. And he chafes at the Trump crowd because he constantly talks about how "the richest nation in the world" should take care of basic health care for its inhabitants.
And Republicans recoil at such talk?
 |
| The august Jan. 6 committee (npr image) |
A burgeoning revolution would turn the screws on MAGA, making it nothing but a vestige of past times. Then, what would become of our Michelle Fischbach? What would become of Jeff Backer? What will become of us all?
Addendum: The Chinese spy balloon! You don't suppose newspaper editorial cartoonists got their sleeves rolled up right away on this? Remember "Balloon Boy?"
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
No comments:
Post a Comment