Wednesday January 6 armed insurgents stormed the Capital with both houses in session.
Many of us watched or listened , horrified, as our Capital was overrun. We watched and waited , horrified, as our elected representatives had to hide from these armed insurgents. We watched and waited , horrified, for the outcome of whether or not our government would be toppled, TOPPLED, by a mob. We watched and waited and prayed worrying for the safety of all.
As an adult I recognize that some people will agree with me on some things and others will not. As an adult I recognize that because someone disagrees with me they are not automatically evil or an idiot. As an adult I recognize that most of us have blind spots, myself included. As an adult I recognize that there is evil in the world and there are people who will manipulate people for their own gain and I one hundred percent believe this of our current president.
As an adult who has voted for years, I trust our electoral process. Each state sets its own parameters of how the process works within their own state. Year in and year out people vote. Why is this year any different? Why do some think fraud occurred on a massive scale this year as opposed to last year or four years ago or eight years ago - IT DID NOT.
The president has, for years, been seeding the idea of fraudulent votes/voters. It is no more true today then it was four years, or ten or fifteen years ago. (yes, I know there has always been some & will always be some). More Americans voted for Biden and he won. There is legal recourse when there is a disagreement. Those processes were used and the result was, more Americans voted for Biden and he won.
What I am having the most difficult time with is those who, rather then condemn an armed mob storming their Capital, post memes on the riots following the murder of George Floyd; or the riots that broke out after BLM protests. This is NOT the same. Using riots to ... defend? treason is a false equivalent. What I am having a very difficult time with is - why? Why would anyone defend the armed overthrow of our government, and that is what is being done when this insurgency is compared to a riot.
Murder, looting, rioting - these are bad; they are always bad.
Those rioters were not armed insurgents determined to overthrow a government .
As the purpose of the terrorists who stormed the Capital was to stop our government from functioning and to overturn a lawful election, this wasn't civil disobedience but an act of treason.
There is a difference between rioting and treason; rioting and sedition.
We should all be horrified and saddened by the act of terrorism that occurred Wednesday. Your support of trumps policies does not preclude you from damning the violent attack on our government yesterday. Every American citizen should be outraged.
( False equivalence is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone incorrectly asserts that two or more things are equivalent, simply because they share some characteristics, despite the fact that there are also notable differences between them. For example, a false equivalence is saying that cats and mice are the same animal, since they’re both mammals and have a tail. )
