Can we resolve the political crisis we're in now? It won't be easy, but I believe it can be done.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/06/we-are-in-political-crisis-resolving-it.html

While the January 6th committee hearings are now underway, and that is a good thing, there are some observations that come with it that we must face realistically and plan for the future accordingly. The fact of the matter is that a relatively large minority of Americans, as many as a third by most credible evidence, can be considered "extremists" in that they believe something that has been proven to be false, and they believe it strongly enough to be willing to use force to defend it.

That is an extremely dangerous place to be. It's the kind of situation that existed in Europe prior to both 20th century world wars. It's existed in the United States in the past as well, in the decades that led up to the Civil War. Extremism has embedded itself in social and cultural institutions, where it is almost impossible to eliminate or change. It only needs a tipping point or, perhaps a better analogy, a carelessly tossed cigarette into the dry tinder to ignite the flames.

We need to recognize that the injection of far right political ideology has its limits, and is waning. It reached its high point in getting Trump in the White House for four years. That, in turn, motivated the largest turnout of Democratic party votes in American history, over 80 million, from virtually every Democratic party constituency, and most independents, to get him out. So the first step is to gather the strength of the ballot box again, in 2022, and put an exclamation point on 2020. Is that so unrealistic? It has to be done, and opinions about who is in the White House don't matter, though the President we have is politically the best suited to carry out what needs to be done and that's why 80 million of us elected him in the first place. Uniting the country has to be done under the rules and principles of its democratic constitutional government, and with the minority party playing the obstructionist card, holding the majority in Congress, getting the Senate past the filibuster obstacle and negotiating from a position of strength is the only language obstructionism understands.