Posted on 07/30/2021 4:15:35 PM PDT by DeweyCA
The conventional claim would be that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was an attack on democracy itself, a trespass upon the sacred precincts of self-government. But how can liberals who have everywhere else demolished traditional forms of sanctity and reverence believe that Congress, of all things, will be spared from contempt? Liberals have taught Americans to disbelieve in God and to view everyone from the nation’s Founding Fathers to the greatest explorers and military commanders as mostly bad men — bad in part simply because they are men: white men, straight men, Christian men, biological men. Yet traditional femininity receives no more respect. Having obliterated veneration and awe in everything else, how can our liberal Jacobins believe that the Capitol building or hoary civic pieties about the work of Congress will be esteemed any more? You cannot complain if a country that people like you have seeded with unbelief turns out to be a country that doesn’t believe in your totems, either. If George Washington must come down, on what grounds can Washington as we know it today still stand?
No — if Americans should hate their ancestors, there’s no reason they should love the political institutions their ancestors produced. In other contexts, progressives are willing to say so: they would happily get rid of the Senate — it’s ‘undemocratic’, you see — as well as the Electoral College, and that’s just for a start. But still, if nothing else is inviolable, isn’t an election itself, the will of the people (properly managed, of course), so sacred that any attempt to interfere with it must be met with the harshest response? The January 6 rioters certainly thought so: they stormed the Capitol because they firmly believed the election had been stolen. They believed they were resisting an insurrection, not perpetrating one.
Telling the demonicrats to be honest and forthright is a waste of breath and is like asking communists to believe in God.
I am happy for you and the author but I’ve never had any other angle of thought on this. It’s the same thought I had about DemonRats when Algore tried to steal the 2000 election.
I had often thought of the Dems stealing the election, but I had not thought of labeling their action as an “insurrection.” That was the new thought to me.
To me it has always been insurrection or sedition or both.
Stealing a local or even state election is a crime, a very serious crime, but stealing the presidency? That is no less than an attempt to take down the nation.
...and the mafia should investigate itself for murder, and extortion.
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