Your comment reminds me of a comment from a grand jury member in Georgia. Paraphrase: “If all Americans knew what we now know, the country would not be divided”.
Very enticing words. I hope there’s even a grain of truth there.
Well, yes (in theory) and no (too often in practice). The January 6 hearings were shown live, with lots of witness testimony and hard evidence presented, for everyone to see and hear. Yet we remain divided on the riot. It was an object lesson in too many people believing more in what they want than in objective truth and real information.
Save your hopes for charges that need it. WIth what has already seeped out, there is more than a grain of truth there; lumps and lumps, not to say mountains, seem more likely. Of course, all the jurors also have to find those grains, lumps, or mountains.
I read something this morning from Robert Reich that I thought was exactly right: "Democracy is about means. Under it, citizens don’t have to agree on ends (abortion, health care, guns, or whatever else we disagree about) as long as we agree on democratic means for handling our disagreements.
But for Trump Republicans, the ends justify whatever means they choose —including expelling lawmakers, rigging elections through gerrymandering, refusing to raise the debt ceiling, and denying the outcome of a legitimate presidential election."
This last paragraph is spot on. In their warped minds it's a fight of politcal good over political evil, or from a religious view a fight of religious good over religious evil. Whatever it takes to get "good" to triumph is justified. Hate, lying, violence, cheating, mocking, etc.
It's why even so-called "normie" Republicans, when pressed, will all say they will vote for Trump if he's their nominee because the alternative of electing an evil, satanic, fanatical Democrats (like Joe Biden!) would mean the end of civilization as we know it. I wish just once when they say this that a journalist would press them on specifics.
Your comment reminds me of a comment from a grand jury member in Georgia. Paraphrase: “If all Americans knew what we now know, the country would not be divided”.
Very enticing words. I hope there’s even a grain of truth there.
Well, yes (in theory) and no (too often in practice). The January 6 hearings were shown live, with lots of witness testimony and hard evidence presented, for everyone to see and hear. Yet we remain divided on the riot. It was an object lesson in too many people believing more in what they want than in objective truth and real information.
They were told not to watch by Trump and Fox News so they didn't. They worship ignorance.
Lots of people just didn’t watch them because their priors would be threatened.
Save your hopes for charges that need it. WIth what has already seeped out, there is more than a grain of truth there; lumps and lumps, not to say mountains, seem more likely. Of course, all the jurors also have to find those grains, lumps, or mountains.
I read something this morning from Robert Reich that I thought was exactly right: "Democracy is about means. Under it, citizens don’t have to agree on ends (abortion, health care, guns, or whatever else we disagree about) as long as we agree on democratic means for handling our disagreements.
But for Trump Republicans, the ends justify whatever means they choose —including expelling lawmakers, rigging elections through gerrymandering, refusing to raise the debt ceiling, and denying the outcome of a legitimate presidential election."
This last paragraph is spot on. In their warped minds it's a fight of politcal good over political evil, or from a religious view a fight of religious good over religious evil. Whatever it takes to get "good" to triumph is justified. Hate, lying, violence, cheating, mocking, etc.
It reminds me of the Crusades for some reason.
It's why even so-called "normie" Republicans, when pressed, will all say they will vote for Trump if he's their nominee because the alternative of electing an evil, satanic, fanatical Democrats (like Joe Biden!) would mean the end of civilization as we know it. I wish just once when they say this that a journalist would press them on specifics.