I was napping when they broke into the Capitol. My wife, Martha, woke me to tell me the news. At that point, the riot (or āinsurrection,ā if you prefer, although I wasnāt thinking of it in those terms at the time) was a couple hours old; it appeared that Congress was safe, our representatives tweeting and cuddling each other in their undisclosed safety bunkers. Ok, I donāt remember any reports of ācuddling,ā but I like to think of Susan Collins and Chuck Schumer holding each other tight.
Martha said she thought we were watching an important moment in American history. I said I didnāt think so; thereād already been so much insanity during Trumpās four years in office that the scene struck me as just another exampleāthough a particularly dramatic oneāof MAGAās criminal exuberance. It was, I thought, Trumpās political death knell.
Five years after the fact, with our criminal president reinstated for a second term, I understand that dayāand especially its aftermathādifferently. January 6, 2021 was the day America broke.
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Itās because after the Vietnam protest the wealthy parasites were like āwoah, we are over-educating these peasants and their economic conditions are too accommodating and they are getting rebellious as a resultā, so theyāve been on a 50 year mission to dissolve public education. Yes thereās also a propaganda component as they have turned all corporate media into state propaganda (what was it Mussolini said about merging corporations and the state?), but propaganda canāt be as effective if people are educated.
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