Posted on 01/11/2021 6:19:34 PM PST by JHL
We have seen a great deal of civil unrest in America over the past many months, much of it peaceful. But the deadly siege that took place at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was different—both in motivation and response. The audacity of the rioters and the violence they perpetrated should have no place in the political process, although tragically, and all too often, violence finds its home in the United States.
Yesterday's shameful events stem from complex issues, including the accelerating violation of norms, racism, and growing distrust in institutions and the other trends that make up Truth Decay, the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. These roots run deep. Countering them will require hard work, moral courage, and persistence. And repairing these fractures in our civic infrastructure will benefit from increased government transparency, more expertise in the executive branch, more inclusive public institutions, and greater investment in both civic education and civic accountability—ideas political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh and I advanced recently as advice to the incoming Biden-Harris administration. I recognize these are just some of many areas that need attention.
I believe RAND's mission is essential to countering the forces we saw yesterday, revitalizing the health of our democracy, and bolstering our collective well-being and sense of safety in the world—even as the path from research and analysis to sound policy can at times be winding. We are resolute in our efforts to develop solutions to society's most complex challenges by starting with facts and rigorous analysis.
This year did not start off in the way many of us had hoped. But I still believe 2021 will present growing opportunities to demonstrate how the application of facts and analysis can help restore trust in our democratic systems and solve even the most contentious problems.
—Michael D. Rich, President and CEO
RAND Is a Swamp organization trying to boost it’s bottom line.
Screw Michael D. Rich !
What makes him think that our populist movement is less legitimate than the left’s extreme unAmericanism.
Or that his business needs to “fight forces” that are not politically acceptable to him?
No advocate of liberty he .
He needs to read a little history:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
Samuel Adams , Speech at Philadelphia State House, August 1st, 1776
Lying about so-called “peaceful” protests sure doesn’t help anything. Everybody saw what happened last summer.
How in the world did this doofus become a president/ceo or is he simply a bald-face liar?
Gates, Rand, Ford, they are all the same...funding baby slaughter, pedophiles, trafficking...UN stuff...get a rope.
Who asked you?
Dear Deep State.
Please keep the checks, and the invitations to cocktail parties, coming!
Sincerely,
Rand Corp.
Me too...GAB seems to be one...Mike Lindell pillows etc. Egard watches maybe?
“Countering the forces”?
He means The Deplorables.
It was not a siege and not deadly except for the AF veteran who was executed by either a DC cop or antifa, or one in the same.
People otherwise dying from medical emergencies happen. It is no reflection on on the condition of the siege.
Besides, it was mostly peaceful.
GOOD LORD - DID THIS IDIOT NOT SEE WHAT HAPPENED ALL SUMMER LONG?!
THIS IS BS
I will NOT be lectured too by these people who refused to stand up for actual Americans all summer but decide to dogpile on command when a mere fraction of what happened across America comes home to the capital. (And far worse has happened on the capital - lest we forget one of the BLM leaders actually bombed the senate building and the black panthers took the capital WITH GUNS.)
This is a country founded by rebels Mr. Rich, rebels against tyranny. If you can’t deal with that, can’t accept it, then get the F out.
Hey Genius, what’s your plan to keep Communist China from intentionally releasing pathogens into the USA while enjoying fellatio from corrupt politicians?
Statistical analysis is a true science and very good evidence that this election result is impossible. Most liberals have no interest in math OR science. They are easily brainwashed and have no logical thoughts of their own. This criminal insanity going on with Democrats, castrated Republicans, big business and the CCP WILL LEAD TO WAR.
Even leaders of other countries are SHOCKED!
Much of the burning, looting, and murdering have been peaceful, until Jan 6. Oh okay.
You have to remember that the RAND Corporation is a whore totally dependent on government grant money. They are bought and paid for, and are ready willing and able to serve their masters in a Biden administration.
Beware the military-industrial complex...
DDE
They’re cowards and hide it by pandering
Living in a fantasy LOOKITMEE world
I am going to print up a reem or two of copies of this to use on my garden in the spring.
Yes I think the mainstream media never learned the definition of the word “siege.” If they spent any time listening to War Room with Steve Bannon, they’d learn a lot of military terms.
This is a failure of our public K-12 education. When they teach the Civil War, for example, they no longer teach about the battles—only the “societal pressures” that led to war.
Luckily my daughter in her new private Christian high school will be taught using the curriculum “A Patriots’ History of the United States.”
Now that Big Tech has decided that “Patriot” means “Domestic Terrorist!”
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