Jan 6th Meme

[KS Toronado]

[mobeau69]

1. It wasn't a riot, it was an insurrection.

[Bucky]

5. Well those aren't mutually exclusive terms

An insurrection is a legal term, while riot captures more of the chaos and irrational anger of the moment. And while Trump may have instigated and insurrection, it's not like an orderly execution or effective orchestration of the parts of his coup plot are hallmarks of his leadership style.

[malaise]

2. And failed - I am a fucking loser

That is all 😀

[Joinfortmill]

3. Soon Trump will be gone. We better do an extensive post-mortem of what the fuck really happened here.

[KS Toronado]

4. YEA, what the hell happened to one of our political parties

that they worship one man like a God and most of them are afraid to ask or challenge him about
anything for fear of making him mad or getting on the list of people getting death threats.

[Bucky]

6. They had a couple of dress rehearsals with previous "God-chosen" presidents

There's not exactly a Republican program for solving the nation's problems. They're not interested in fixing problems. So when you have a political party but organized around a series of public policies, but rather just a warm feeling of superiority over other humans, that leaves them hate dependent and inclined to engage in personality cults.

Back when I was a kid they specialized in extreme liberty-fetishism and a cowboy myth of rugged individualism with John Wayne and Barry Goldwater. Only that didn't win them elections. But once you had Reagan blending in religious zealotry and a carefully coded messaging of hatred of The Other, they'd finally concocted the perfect blend of Soviet-style hero worshiping and fascist-style pep rallies as ego trip.

Once they perfected it with Reagan and Dubya, it was just a matter of waiting around for the right charlatan to come along and march the lemmings off a cliff.

[lastlib]

7. You have it exactly right!

It wasn't until the "frontier-myth" met up with the zealotry and hatred that they became the GOPee of today. "And hell followed with them."

[KS Toronado]

8. You're spot on Bucky, better description of the problem than I could ever compose

So it's kinda like Reagan started pulling the entire Country into "Death Valley Days" with no water for the
"20 Mule Team" ?

[Bucky]

9. Heather Cox Richardson explains it more clearly

and more methodically

[Rhiannon12866]

10. K&R! Guilty as charged!!!