- Joined
- May 21, 2019
The smart play here by Biden and the Democrats would be to take a page from Lincoln and appeal to the better Angel's. Biden Pardononing the MAGA chuds who went Rabble rabble at the Capital would be a huge gesture that would be pretty hard to top and start his Presidency off on the right foot. You know, about bridging the divide.
Sadly I know this wont happen. The far left wants blood and now that Trump is on the out the Media needs a new enemy to fear monger about for ratings. We had for an entire year a tidlewave of "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" that the Democrats not only actively encouraged through the media but even used their political power where available to protect and accelerate. More then 30 people were killed and tens of billions of dollars lost to property destruction. Property destruction I still see not repaired to this day in my home town. It holds not a candle to what happened at the Capital and the injured shrieking from the Media comes across as nothing less then hypocritical rantings from a power structure that long ago lost any semblance of respect.
I do not like the course of history our political leadership has chosen and I see a marked unwillingness to change it. It is not an Abberation that thousands of people went to DC and decided storming Congress was a Good Idea. This is indicative a very very serious issue because for every person in that crowd there were at least 100 other people watching it happen and applauding. This is massively dangerous and there seems to be zero awareness among the political class of just how dangerous this is. The First American Civil War did not break out spontaneously. There was a steady escalation. Random acts of violence and outrages that compounded over a period of 20 years. Two senators beating the shit out of each other on the floor of the Senate. Bleeding Kansas, John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry. All incidents that in there individuality were minor. But were symptomatic of a larger problem boiling under the surface.
And in today's hyper partisan media environment, the incentive is to turn up the heat, not turn it off. God save the Republic.
But the right has the ability to stop them in their tracks within a year. Starve them, starve the corps and tech giants that are the real source of their power.
Let's do it if we even have an ounce of will.