‘What are you afraid of?’ Jaime Herrera Buetler, a Republican congresswoman from Washington state, demanded of her colleagues as they considered the second impeachment of Donald Trump. “I’m not afraid of losing my job,” Herrera Beutler said. “But I am afraid that my country will fail.” (Molly Bell/Time Magazine)
In the euphoric days following the Biden Inauguration, as the other “I” word INSURRECTION still buzzed around America as might a swarm of mosquitos on a humid summers afternoon, many Americans, whose desire for justice to invalidate injustice, wanting valor’s vindication over vitriol, and violence; imagined that calm and cool could be inhaled as if both had the chemical and natural ingredients of oxygen. Celebrations, sighs of relief (I suppose as a collective would look like the red super cyclone on Jupiter), emanated, and even the most cynical of citizens ( I among them), supposed crimes committed would be conquered, criminals contained, and in earnest, law and order would prevail. I mean Sedition and Insurrection, Treason and Tyranny were not words JUST in a Political Science Textbook, but actual attempts at a COUP a Domestic Terroristic attack on the United States!
But here we are, and WE THE PEOPLE, are no longer a WE, but a US and THEM THE PEOPLE, a rift that did not erupt with an attempted Fascist Authoritarian take-over, conceived and initiated from the day Trump had been hacked into office, but blossomed because Trump’s power had never been held in check, and all of the past hate and loathing of this nation swept into corners and crevices of this nations collective conscience, conveniently coalesced. I somehow have no idea why if wrong is bad, and this bad has evil consequences for the future of our country, we are still debating ANY of this?
