Whither Inspiration or Incitement
Of course, inspiration usually results in good and incitement, bad.
So what was the incitement at the capital?
It isn’t simple now is it?
Some people are easily incited to violence, others take a little more. It isn’t a yes no, it is a spectrum.
Some folks are invited to violence by feeling that they have been “disrespected”. That disrespect may be something that no sane person would even blink at and would just walk away. Some folks are incited by the death of a criminal , two thousand miles away and then go about destroying an entire section of their own city.
No one expected the infinitely patient and peaceful Trump supporters to riot, but unfortunately a few learned the wrong lessons from the “Summer of Peace”
Inspiration may lead a person into political activism, starting a new business, being released from jail and meeting with the president. Some are inspired by a politician who they believe finally puts the process of politics second, behind the needs of people. Some who see that man as the “ Man in the Arena” envisioned by Teddy Roosevelt, who promises action on problems and though sometimes inarticulate , works toward that goal.
Nothing started on Jan 6th.
Democrats would like for us to forget sp many things and just concentrate on that incitement, or whatever it was, that happened that day.
We should forget that impeachment was the entire agenda of the Democrats.
We should forget the lies about Russian collusion, orchestrated by Democrats and the state we are supposed to trust.
We should forget the demonstrations on the day of Trumps inauguration. We should forget the violent demonstrations that took over parts of the government for days or weeks, causing death and destruction.
We should forget that the Vice President -elect ran a system to bail out the rioters.
We should forget that they called us Nazis, white supremacists, deplorables, fools, idiots ( insert here every derogatory comment that can be applied to a human being.)
Finally we should forget that they manipulated state laws illegally, hid information about the Biden crime family and too every action or inaction by the President and distorted it and then took those lies and distortions to generate hatred for the man and his supporters and attack them all across the spectrum of their lives and livelihoods.
I would suggest that all those things an more were the incitement that caused a few people to be fools and to be used to accomplish exactly the opposite of helping the movement toward ending corruption in our governance and information access. And still they persist.
Trumps major involvement in the incitement was that he consistently revealed to us their crimes, and in Washington, that is a capital offense.
We can only hope that his sacrifice and destruction will inspire us. There is much to do.