liveonearth | Interesting Times (Reply)

If times were ever interesting, these are getting right up there. In America, the Executive Branch sent an attack mob to the Legislative Branch of our government. Marched them right down the avenue from the White House and up the Capitol steps. One week ago. That mob overwhelmed all barriers and invaded the Capitol through the windows, during a session. The building was under lockdown for hours, with our representatives hidden in a subterranean chamber. You can see the patriot invasion on youtube. According to potus his mob looked "low class". But then later he pronounced "we love you" to the same crew.

Then today the president is impeached for the second time. How interesting. Twice. May that be followed by a Senate trial and prompt Removal.

The inauguration is planned to be a "hard target" so attacks may divert to state capitols which are considered "soft". White supremacists have been booted to the backroads of the internet and are developing clandestine communications to sort out their next grand move. They would enjoy a chance to kick some ass; a race war would do nicely.

The Executive Branch has been subverting the Judicial Branch by filling benches with sympathetic judges, but it is still a very separate Branch of power. Lawyers and especially judges tend to be smart and willful and develop their own thinking rather than adopting half-baked ideology. They see the obvious bogusness of the Big Lie. The election wasn't stolen. Those Attorney Generals, all 17 of them that signed on to a Texas lawsuit trying to flip the election, they aren't stupid. They have been corrupted. They must be getting rich. Or have their nuts in a vise. Or both. Barr is probably still trying to get his nuts out.

Oh yeah and the pandemic. Isn't that interesting? What fascinates me the most is how utterly ignorant most people are about how the body works, and how a virus works, and why some people live and some die from the same virus. The TERRAIN matters, my friends. If your organs are sick, you can be weakened and susceptible without knowing it. Science is really cool, too, it explains so much.

Ignorance about our government and institutions is also prevalent. Broad ignorance is the terrain on which half-baked ideologies grow. The difference is education. But our schools have gotten as lazy as our Capitol defenses. Believing that America truly is the greatest nation on earth has led to complacency and then denial. What? No problems here, we say, but the world knows better. America was a great experiment in government, still is as of this moment.

There is the possibility that Trump will function like a vaccine. Just a tiny dose, well four long years. Maybe that will autocrat-proof America. Or maybe the booster shot will be worse. And on top of that there is the possibility that this Republic will fail. Trump tried to bring down this government and to date has failed.

Interesting, huh.