Originally Posted by
mark blazejewski
Happy New Year shortstuff.
Yours is a wonderful encapsulation of the circumstances; longstanding conditions which now bring us to the brink of self-destruction.
If I may, just a brief point.
In my mind, the evidence that the 2020 Presidential election was full of fraud seems compelling. Regrettably, a full airing of that evidence in a credible, Constitutionally-prescribed forum has not been, and apparently will not, be permitted. Yesterday's Joint Senate and House proceedings were in part, Constitutionally designed to address such concerns.
Therefore, in light of the preemptive attitude of McConnell, and the predisposition of Pence not to fully engage the world of Constitutionality, many of the 75 million Trump voters obviously felt, and still feel, disenfranchised.
With that said, I believe that offensive violence, whether from BLM, Antifa, or MAGA people, has no role in a fully functioning democracy. But, when the prescribed legal avenues no longer fully avail themselves to a heretofore free people, those people may look to alternate channels to reclaim their rights.
Simply put, how does one convince the perceptibly aggrieved to faithfully rely on a channel of corrective redress, when that specific channel is itself the subject of corruptive concerns, and those concerns are either dismissed, marginalized, or ridiculed?
Perhaps if the system had given to the Trump voters the same degree of respect and response previously and properly lent to Leftist actors, confidence in America's voting system would have been restored, and Capitol Hill would have been a shrine to democracy and not a bedlam of horror?