'The January 6 attack never ended' and remains in a direct line with a still not ended Civil War
The Civil War hasn’t ended. How many American citizens still live for the discredited and ahistorical revisionist view that the South went to war with America over ‘state’s rights?'
January 6 hasn’t ended. The Civil War still hasn’t ended. How many American citizens still live for the wholly discredited and ahistorical revisionist belief that the South went to war with the rest of America over ‘state’s rights’ based on a misconstrued ‘Lost Cause?’
How many still think they are fighting the Civil War?
This is even though ranging from Henry Calhoun in South Carolina, to other politicians and senior members of the South’s then slaveholding old Victorian aristocracy and politicians, incendiary speeches were being given to justify a Civil War the South so wanted by repeatedly citing America’s ‘assault’ on slavery; on the right to continue holding and brutalizing human beings. On the South’s necessary and ‘peculiar institution.’
‘Peculiar,’ indeed, where they counted human slaves as 3/5 of a human so as to allow the South far disproportionate and artificial political power. And the South still has that disproportionate political power, now in some different ways, but it still remains wrapped around White Supremacy and the framework for human slavery. White Supremacy, sadly, remains the model for America showing itself through our laws, systems of court sentencing, policing, public schools, employment home ownership - and far more.
It must end.
The Electoral College existed as a result of then negotiations with slave holding states and should have long since been eradicated for a one adult; one vote simple American majority presidential election. But since doing do would end the South’s ‘peculiarly’ disproportionate power politics and bring it back in as part of America while helping to finally end the Civil War means it won’t happen anytime soon.
There is a direct line from the ahistorical ‘Lost Cause’ and bogus Civil war ‘states right’ arguments we continue to hear to the events of January 6. Poll the January 6 participants and I’d hypothesize so many are ardently, violently White Supremacist/Nationalist and far less concerned over America’s unique Constitution and Rights than there over having a Black President; over now having a Black Vice President who is likely to ultimately run for and win the White House.
Many of the domestic terrorists on January 6 flagrantly ran around our Capital with the Confederate battle flag or wore other components of the worst of America; of the old Confederacy and America’s 400 year old history of violent White Supremacy. Of still resented loss. Though Confederate armies tried but never set foot in our Capital during the Civil War, a combination of their descendants and so many wannabees were finally able to do so on January 6, 2020 on the direct incitement of Donald Trump; of Mo Brooks and Rudy Giuliani whom all remain unindicted.
If the insurrectionists; domestic terrorists hadn’t been huge majority white and sent directly by Donald Trump, police would have backed up vans and buses and made mass arrests as they did to the majority peaceful social and racial justice protestors during the Summer, 2020. A loon picked up just last week by the Capital police near the DNC in Washington DC with knives and a bayonet had confederate and White Supremacist iconography all over his pick up.
Fortunately, he was not among the more subtle. Many more are, however.
A strain of intense and violent White Supremacy continues to run through our military and law enforcement agencies. I believe a majority in both are not but far too many White Supremacists/White Nationalists remain in uniform. Far too many violent White Supremacists/Nationalists enlist to receive the ‘training’ they want to ultimately resume the extreme violence of the Civil War and, for so many, that of Nazi Germany. POC and Black Americans, Jews, immigrants, ‘liberal’ politicians - others - are in their primary sights. Hate crimes targeting POC and Jews are at an all time high. The nation continues to overlook this massive, extremely violent elephant in the room at our own potential destruction.
What is unique at this moment on our Timeline of History and acting as a primary precipitant is having a major political party in the GOP which has staked about everything it has left on the Civil War’s ‘Lost Cause’ etymology and Death.
This, though the insanity has now been well extended through far more bizarre conspiracy theories to include the aggregate ‘Q’ which considers about all elected Democrats to be evil pedophiles. What’s also unique at the moment is the presence of the deeply flawed, deeply unstable avatar in Donald Trump held up front for motivation and justification by America’s recently more dormant White Supremacist and White Nationalist movements.
It is the amoral and wholly disconnected ‘birther’ Trump, with his primary GOP racist and seditionist apologists, who have given new rise to the old ‘Lost Cause’ thereby reinvigorating among the least competent, most violent political groups in the United States. So many of whom who had still been fighting the Civil War in their head have now found a means by which to bring it back to the street. It is a huge network of White Supremacist/Nationalist and corporate ‘dark money’ which continues to actively fund and help organize behind Trump, their idiot avatar, who will say about anything so long as he thinks people like him.
No, January 6 is far from over and we will wait to see how it manifests again on January 18. This time, I’m anticipating, US Capital and DC Metro police will be far better prepared and far more aggressive in their response.
And the police response may be less whether selected officers feel specific ‘sympathy’ for those who would violently overturn our Constitution in the absurd effort to reinstate a mental incompetent to the White House as it is the fact that those who participated in the January 6 violent insurrection attacked and seriously injured so many fellow police officers. I also do believe that the intent of largest percentage of the police officers involved will be to honestly represent their uniforms while defending our nation. But these are no longer broad presumptions.
No, January 6 is far from over regardless of these next few days in the same way our Civil War has sadly; tragically not yet ended. The modern GOP continues every effort to return us to preferred elements of antebellum America with a primary emphasis on White Supremacist/White Nationalist violence and intimidation and the racist dissolution of voter rights targeting POC; urban communities.
America must finally dissolve the still active vestiges of it’s history of the abomination of human slavery from eliminating the Electoral College to ending lifetime appointments to SCOTUS and expanding the Court. America must also and immediately move to a simple national majority presidential election to include national, automatic voter registration.
It is time to end the Civil War. Otherwise, it could well catch back up to us otherwise.