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lees1975

(6,180 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:17 PM Jan 6

Four years since the Trump Insurrection, and what has been accomplished as electoral votes are certified in his favor?

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/its-been-four-years-since-mob-incited.html

So it will be that on the fourth anniversary of the now infamous Trump Insurrection, a title which I will use, including capital letters, to communicate exactly what it was, the electoral votes of the former President who incited it will be certified as the winner of the 2024 election. There's been nothing in American history quite like this, something which the founding fathers of this country could not, on the days when they were speculating about the worst that could possibly happen if they adopted the constitution they had drafted, have ever imagined.

Today, the uniquely American values that were the result of America's evolution from being part of a colonial empire under the rule of the British monarchy to reaching the heights of world military and economic power as a constitutional democracy, will be tossed aside, trashed, and completely ignored as Congress certifies the electoral vote which will put Trump, the instigator and initiator of the insurrection, back in the White House. The evil that has succeeded in edging its way back into power, after being defeated, and then showing itself for exactly what it was, has replaced patriotic American values. A nation that once succeeded in replacing monarchial power with the rule of law has now abandoned that rule of law.

I honestly have no words which can describe this historical abberration. It is, in fact, much more than that. It is a stunning reversal of the growth and development of America as the world's leading democracy, the intrusion of licentious demagoguery, a rejection of the values upon which this country was founded and has existed for over 240 years. The constitution states that the nation has a government "of the people, by the people and for the people." If this election really is legitimate, and the people, by a slim majority of those who bothered to vote, but more by the absence of millions who didn't bother, have chosen this as their government, then there have been some massive failures of cultural and social instutitions that once supported individual freedom, and protected individual diversity.
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