(#5818) Insurrection day!

      This is the first time in our American history where we who love America and the democracy it birthed are remembering an anniversary of an insurrection on  America's capitol. Not only are we remembering the horrible attempt to overthrow our government but a majority of our ignorant and selfish electorate chose to elect the perpetrator back into the presidency. I am still numbed by it all and clearly cannot rightly express my disgust and disappointment to a level that contains my fury. Never again will America be able to claim the high ground in moral and ethical questions when our own behavior eliminates us from the claim.
     The very idea of our democracy is to uphold the rule of law and promote equality, fairness, and liberty among other virtues. Yet what we currently uphold is obedience to dishonesty, acquiescence to criminality, and a neutral stance on living a life of honor and integrity. What is difficult for me to imagine is that others are not willing to grow and mature into strong, wise, benevolent people. Instead it is apparent that pettiness and greed overflow from our society as it's most abundant resource. We have laid bare the idea that capitalism is a means to promote democracy and instead have embraced capitalism as an end that justifies the means to cripple democracy.
     Our American society has devolved into the wild west scenario where guns and power rule and law abiding is scoffed at as weak. The inner hatred it takes to manifest that paradigm is considerable. Instead of fighting to make our world a better place to live in, too many are fighting to make our world a hellscape where only the brutes can succeed thereupon to spread their cruelty. Peace and harmony should be the goal of everyone who lives so that we all benefit from each other's gifts. We are human beings on one planet in our Universe. We are here with each other. No matter how twisted some may think, we are all genetically the same people and as such no one or several people should ever be allowed to desecrate our possibilities together.