The
Insurrection of January 6, 2021 once again brings violence to the
fore in the continuing, re-prosecution of the (un)Civil War...
It's
been hard for some to come to grips with, “Well, how did we get
here?”
White
supremacists have been integral to these United States... First, the
history of the Americas, the western hemisphere, has been documented
as starting in 1492; in spite of massive amounts of accumulated
evidence that people have resided on the entire landmass for tens of
thousands of years...
Labor
was provided by slaves; brought to the Americas involuntarily...
That
the USA's founding fathers were enlightened, in an 18th
century context, while still prone to being white supremacists; white
men owning property were the only original voters, those held as
slaves were counted as three fifths of a person in the original
census and indigenous people did not count at all...
That
for the last 50 plus years Democrats have felt a need to be
nonpartisan, reaching across the aisle in a centrist (neo-liberal)
way, while picking up the pieces of the economic and social messes
Republicans created. (see also, the book: Bulls Bears and the Ballot
Box by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb)...
Some things to keep in mind while
promoting progressive (Keynesian) Democrats up and down all ballots
in 2022, and beyond...
FDR
(D): The New Deal and Keynesian economics, etc...
JFK (D): 1962 Speech at Rice
University, FFRDCs, etc...
LBJ
(D): Great Society, Medicaid, Civil and Voting Rights Acts, etc...
SCOTUS:
1973 Roe v. Wade...
Obama (D):
Affordable Care Act, etc...
Biden
(D): American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,
etc...
The
media has been promoting a, “both sides do it,” in creating the
chaos that has haunted our United States of America for, at least,
the last century.
That's
patently incorrect.
Conservatives,
in the guise of Republicans since the Reagan administration, created
problems while trying to return to the problematic, white
supremacist, roots of these United States.
Democrats
have picked up the messes while refusing to point out the errors, and
without ever holding those, who were intentionally making those
errors, in a recurring nightmarish series of events, responsible.
Elections
and investigations can give us the power to correct the errors of the
recent past and hold those criminally responsible to task.
Remember,
this is a recurring problem, because we, who should know better, get
comfortably self-satisfied and forget that those, who would do
whatever it takes to serve only themselves, never go away.
Keep
your eyes open, and: Vote! Vote! Vote!