[quote=svelte]Welcome back Scaredy…I’ve been thinking about you every few days.
As I’m sure you’ve seen Trump tried his best to burn the place down on his way out the door. Jan 6, 2021 will be in textbooks for decades to come. Those photos of hundreds of troops laying on the floor the the US Capitol are really something.
This is all such an amazing thing to watch and while it embarrasses me that our country is going through this, it shows that the foundation is still rock solid. Our system works. All three branches of government work. It took four years to spit out a defective part of the executive branch, but the defective part was indeed spit out.[/quote]
The capitol riots cheered me up. We are a nation founded on genocide and slavery, and in general we’ve always been an undemocratic, militaristic, war-mongering, nation of aggressive dudes ready to mess up other countries for our own personal gain. It’s who we are. It’s our brand.
Now, it seems, we are the same, except the anger is directed inward. This is interesting. The enemy is us. Instead of screwing with guatemala’s elections or some CIA coup outside our borders, we seem to be doing to ourselves what we have been doing to the world for a century. Destabilizing ourselves as an inside job.
Its therapeutic for the world for us to bring our aggressive idiocy home where we can deal with it without screwing up other nations.
Also, really, I was a bit jealous of the capitol rioters. So much community spirit amongst them, which I do not feel in my own life. So much purpose! and they seemed to be having such an awesome time. It looks like maybe one of the best days of their lives, and for most, with small penalties to pay, probably on the whole worth it. What am I? Some dumb liberal wuss who hates gun and is afraid of everything. I want to walk into the Nation’s capitol like I own it, maybe take a piss on Mitch Mcconnell’s desk. Man that would’ve felt good. But no, I can’t because I am a reaosnable antifa type person who is concerned about other humans points of views. What a dope.
I do not agree that everything is OK. Everything is just as it was. unstanble. Chaotic. Primed for possible improvement, or decline.
