Is America getting a thirst for blood?
It’s a question I ask after hearing too many Republicans dismiss the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob trying to halt the counting of American citizens’ votes as a “normal tourist visit,” in the words of Georgia Rep. Andrew S. Clyde, the same Clyde seen — mouth open and terrified — helping to barricade the besieged doors that day.
When I was a Baltimore schoolgirl, we often visited Washington, D.C., to tour the monuments. It was an easy and informative field trip, barely an hour away by bus. Now kids can occasionally be unruly, and the nuns had to raise their voices once or twice. But I don’t recall ever erecting gallows on the Capitol lawn, breaking windows or pummeling police officers with batons and their own shields. In fact, I’m sure it would have made […]
At some point, the right wing extremists, like the emperor, will shed the illusion clothing it. I used to be hopeful that day would come soon, but now I’m apprehensive. If an insurrection could be “disappeared” and spun into “tourists,” what will it take for the illusion to finally fall?
There was a lot of anger about the election. While Trump was impeached for the appearance of a quid pro quo, Joe Biden’s quid pro quo(for which his son was paid) was completely ignored. The media ignored Biden’s long history of dishonesty, including repeated plagiarism and sweetheart deals for his son and brother, and attacked Trump rather than expose Biden. The election wasn’t fixed, but the failure of the Democratic Party and the media to expose Biden was both wrong and unfair. Now we have a President who is both an intellectual midget and a bumbling senile idiot. Instead of Trump’s rants, we have Biden’s incoherent and nonsensical speech. Meanwhile, the illegal aliens flood across the border and inflation is out of control. It’s all disgusting!
America has always had a taste for blood. Since the beginning of the gun culture in the country’s early years. Granted, they were needed to put food on the table, along side the lack potential diplomacy with the Native Americans. However that may be, it was when I moved to Europe where I lived for several years, I learned through acquaintances and friends how Americans were viewed. This was in 70s, after having lived under a violent military dictatorship. There are and have been protests in Europe for years. Some quite large. But there are NO mass shootings. Guns are still used to hunt in some places. I believe the greatest influence in America is the lack of good public schools like the ones in Europe where students to understand misinformation and classes and the time spent in school tends to be longer, by a year or two. The baccalaureate exams graduating students after what we call high school are notoriously difficult. The German students were required to study of English for 6 years. And of course with those studies came learning about the culture. And that’s only one small example.