Generally, I enjoy feeling challenged by different perspectives on this podcast. However, the conversation in the January 6th insurrectionists emphasizes how folks still live in different worlds. I watched the insurrection live while it happened and frankly am shocked at the lack of recognition on this podcast for what those people did a…
Generally, I enjoy feeling challenged by different perspectives on this podcast. However, the conversation in the January 6th insurrectionists emphasizes how folks still live in different worlds. I watched the insurrection live while it happened and frankly am shocked at the lack of recognition on this podcast for what those people did and what that day represented. Even if you agree with their cause or sympathize because some people didn’t really know what they were getting into, the fact remained the mob’s intent was to stop the certification of a presidential election that Biden won. The fact remains that people showed up wanting to hang the vice president, or are we to believe they found all of that wood to make a gallows just lying around the Mall? The fact remains that the mob broke into the capitol, broke into offices, broke into chambers, while members of Congress and their staffers had to hide. It was a shameful day that put the basic mechanisms of democracy at risk and led to the death of five law enforcement officers. The people in the mob rightfully were prosecuted and should not have been pardoned or had their sentences commuted. Just because folks may think, well, Biden and his people didn’t always follow the law, doesn’t mean law breakers at work for the other party should get away with their serious crimes. In fact, I can believe at the same time that Biden and his staff made mistakes and may have abused their power and STILL believe that January 6th was an insurrection that was premeditated, dangerous, and illegal. I found the nonchalant tone of the conversation to be shocking and demonstrative of the tendency in the US today to look the other way when it’s our side breaking the law but go full tilt when we believe the other side has broken the law. I’d like to see the FP do what it says it does, which is to be the adult in the room and step above the fray. The conversation instead highlighted that there continues to be an unwillingness on the right to see that day for what it was. If democrats had attacked the capitol trying to stop the certification of Trump’s election, I do not think I would have heard the tone and minimizing language that we heard today.
Generally, I enjoy feeling challenged by different perspectives on this podcast. However, the conversation in the January 6th insurrectionists emphasizes how folks still live in different worlds. I watched the insurrection live while it happened and frankly am shocked at the lack of recognition on this podcast for what those people did and what that day represented. Even if you agree with their cause or sympathize because some people didn’t really know what they were getting into, the fact remained the mob’s intent was to stop the certification of a presidential election that Biden won. The fact remains that people showed up wanting to hang the vice president, or are we to believe they found all of that wood to make a gallows just lying around the Mall? The fact remains that the mob broke into the capitol, broke into offices, broke into chambers, while members of Congress and their staffers had to hide. It was a shameful day that put the basic mechanisms of democracy at risk and led to the death of five law enforcement officers. The people in the mob rightfully were prosecuted and should not have been pardoned or had their sentences commuted. Just because folks may think, well, Biden and his people didn’t always follow the law, doesn’t mean law breakers at work for the other party should get away with their serious crimes. In fact, I can believe at the same time that Biden and his staff made mistakes and may have abused their power and STILL believe that January 6th was an insurrection that was premeditated, dangerous, and illegal. I found the nonchalant tone of the conversation to be shocking and demonstrative of the tendency in the US today to look the other way when it’s our side breaking the law but go full tilt when we believe the other side has broken the law. I’d like to see the FP do what it says it does, which is to be the adult in the room and step above the fray. The conversation instead highlighted that there continues to be an unwillingness on the right to see that day for what it was. If democrats had attacked the capitol trying to stop the certification of Trump’s election, I do not think I would have heard the tone and minimizing language that we heard today.