We Have Entered a New Era in American Politics.....

 

    And, it appears that nothing will ever be the same as it was before last Wednesday.  The media are still struggling to report the full scope of it all, but there is a level of disgust, anger, sadness and a deep-seated outrage that is palpable and isn't going to just fade away.  

   What the capital invaders did was push our political and social viewpoints toward something that may prove undoable as we try to get on down the road towards a livable and workable society.  At this moment, we are facing challenges as daunting as anything since World War II and the Great Depression that preceded it.  More people are dying each day than died on 9-11.  I can hardly get my brain to accept this idea. And, it's not getting better; it's getting WORSE.  The medical system in southern California is strained to the breaking point....for both physical facilities, supplies, even places to put all the dead bodies....AND the medical personnel--to whom we have been attributing seeming super powers along with being massively heroic.

  But, just because we have feelings of gratitude and immense respect....does not make their situation  any more doable.  It, in the near term, is becoming rapidly UNDOABLE.  People are being ground up and spit out by the hours and being immersed in the daily life and death pathos of the hospital ERs and ICUs.  It cannot go on this way for much longer.  What is coming is a feeling of becoming overwhelmed and of a massive failure to cope.  In fact, it's already here in some hospitals in SoCal.  

   Meanwhile, back at the nation's capital....we have no mere 'protest' on our hands but rather a full scale attempt to steal the government.  This was not a 'political statement' that was being made. Oh no!  This was a coup attempt.  It is domestic terrorism, by definition.  And, it has changed America from last Wednesday forward.  It's way too soon, to know what we will look like as a nation coming out the other side of this, but, it's a safe bet that it will be very different that what we have gotten used to up to this point.

   For starters, I don't sense that the people of color in America--and especially the black community--are ever going to be willing to be as oppressed and disenfranchised as they have been all along.  The genie is out of the lamp on this one....and there will be no stuffing him back into the lamp.  And, yet, even as this is becoming a reality, unarmed black men continue to be shot down by police who are not being charged for doing so.  

                              There is no more room for denial that the Trump agenda is wholly and deeply saturated with WHITE SUPREMACY

 Amazing leaders are showing up.  Stacey Abrams, for example, is a force of nature.  She was the driving force for achieving a fair and un-trammeled election in Georgia, a state that is famous for voter suppression and has even modeled it for other red-states.  There is AOC--don't even need to remind you of her name at this point.  Also a force to be reckoned with. And, there are lots of other women, especially women of color, who are now serving in the house.  Things are shifting away from the old model of white male supremacy.

  Of course, there are stirrings on the dark side too.  One new member of the house, Lauren Boebert of Colorado,  announced on social media that she'd be bringing her Glock pistol to sessions.  That prompted a visit from the Capitol Police to explain to her that she can't just do what she wants; there are laws around carrying weapons in DC. She's a Trumpet, naturally, so she'll make a fuss about her rights being abrogated.

  Oh, no! Wait a minute!  It turns out that this idiot tweeted to capitol invaders where they could find Nancy Pelosi.  Now it's possible that she'll lose her seat, and hopefully even be indicted for aiding and abetting a terror attack.  Good.  These anti-American assholes were chanting that they wanted to hang the Speaker of the House when they found her.  Mike Pence was also targeted, because he had the temerity to tell the Idiot that it was not within his power to simply turn the election over to his Idiotness.

  There are a ton of questions to be answered about how the invaders got into the capitol and whether or not they had members of the police in collusion, and, as Boebert has shown, even some members of the House of Representatives helping them.  Video continues to surface that is creating even more questions: Why were some police officers filmed having selfies taken with insurgents?  How did they find particular offices without an insider guiding them?  How is it that they managed to simply gain access to the building so seemingly easily?

  It's a good thing that the capitol invaders were a kind of farce force.  They put a lot of energy into having the perfect COSTUME for the somber occasion of taking over the country.  The now infamous jerk who dressed-up in animal furs with horns on his head, and red-white-blue make up, has been identified and arrested.  Likewise the idiot who sat at the desk in Pelosi's office, blathering about it was 'his desk' and only 'on loan' to the speaker. More to come....much more.

  The whole thing was a clown show.  But, it was a clown-show with a dark underside that caused five and arguably six deaths....if you count the policeman who killed himself two days after the fact. 

  It will all come out in the wash.  I have confidence that once the Biden/Harris administration is up and running that wheels will start turning in a more determined fashion and more and more invaders will be not only identified, but will be losing their jobs, the right to fly, and more.  The point will be made clear that you cannot simply decide to break the law, ride rough-shod into the seat of our government and tear the place up, all the while shouting that you're there to hang the Speaker of the House and the vice-president....and have it be taken lightly.  That won't happen.