You're Damn Right I'm Angry!

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/11/youre-damn-right-im-angry.html

What's happened during, and since the January 6th Trump Insurrection has been nothing short of appalling. I have no vocabulary strong enough or condemning enough to express my utter disgust and disappointment with that group of Americans, displaying their appalling and obtuse ignorance and their total abandonment of reason and critical thinking in attacking the Congress while in a dual session for the purpose of certifying an election in which none of the alleged "fraud" could be proven. Those who showed up demonstrated total lack of respect for the constitution's provisions for the separation of powers, operation of the federal government and the peaceful transfer of power.

This was the most heinous attack on American government since the Civil War. In all honesty, those who participated in it should have had their citizenship revoked, and required to go through the process of learning about the constitution, like foreigners who want to become citizens, before being allowed back into American society.

The congressional investigation was impeccable. Evidence was laid out in front of anyone who cared to take a look at it. The committee was virtually flawless in their presentation and remarkably unified in their conclusions. I was quite baffled at the fact that four members of the House were able to defy subpoenas, and allowed to get away with it. This is a clear indication Republicans no longer have any respect for the rule of law, or the constitution, and that is something that we, the people, need to correct by making them suffer the consequence of not being allowed to participate in government if they won't cooperate. I don't know how it was that members of Congress didn't get that message when we had a majority in both Houses.

The inability of the justice department to take that evidence, make a case with it and get it moving in a timely fashion is simply inexcusable incompetence. I'm angry at the foot-dragging, delaying obfuscation that went on at the DOJ for a couple of reasons. One is because we were left with the impression that they were moving as quickly as they could, given the deliberate and cumbersome nature of a legal system slanted to favor the rich who can afford good legal representation that slows down the process and makes a strategy out of interminable delays and legal minutia. The other is because they were lying about it, and they weren't actually doing anything at all, and had it not been for this being discovered, almost a year later in the process, and there having been a public outcry over it, no charges might ever have been filed against Trump for leading an insurrection.

And this is where my anger burns a bit hotter. The prime narrative of the Biden campaign, and his administration, along with his aims for re-election, emphasized that Trump was an existential threat to American democracy, and that the coming elections were crucial to the preservation of our democracy and the most consequential of our lifetime. Yet, they had the power, and the evidence, to have Trump permanently declared ineligible for public office by charging him with insurrection and making that verdict stick, because that's all it would have taken and it would have been the easiest case to prove.