Joe Scarborough had an EXCELLENT show on today. If you can get it or hear it you should.
Joe's
guests, Yale professor Timothy Snyder and Princeton Professor Eddie
Glaude, zeroed in on the centrifugal force fueling what this election
dispute is about. It is about race. I knew before that race was a large
part fueling the ire of Trump's base but I did not think it was the
largest part nor the only part. For Trump's minions on the Capitol
steps, though, it was. When all is said and done race is the passion
that drives our social fracture.
If
persons of color were not allowed to vote, Timothy Snyder who wrote the
NYT Magazine article "The American Abyss" linked below, said and
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude agreed then Biden would not be
president.
Trump
and his Republican minions were protesting votes in black areas of
cities in the disputed states. America's racist original sin was at the
forefront of the Capitol attack! White supremacists were at the front
of the line invading the Capitol. Moreover, White Supremacists love
Trump because they finally got a white supremacist president in present
time who speaks to that festering sore and made it work to elect him
president. His white racist minions/mob want to keep Trump president for
life! Trump sings their song and has throughout his presidency. White
supremacists think the country belongs to them and they think a black
man is not as good as a white. They think he does not deserve to vote
and to pick a president. They scream this is MY Capitol. I want to say
this is my Capitol too and it is my black brothers and sisters Capitol
as well! The nation fought a civil war and paid the price of 620,000
dead to resolve that dispute. We are NOT going back!
Scarborough's
segment today with Timothy Snyder who wrote "On Tyranny" was truth
telling. If you can get the NYT Magazine article "The American Abyss"
it explains much of the diagnostic cancer that is a primary truth of our
nation and of the 2020 election. What antibiotic truth can each of us
tell to cure our original sin?
If
you want a democracy based on law, Professor Timothy Synder says, you
have to care about truth. Nothing will stop the violence if one opinion
passed off as truth is as good as another. Without truth you cannot,
Professor Snyder says, have the rule of law and without law you cannot
have democracy!
"The American Abyss"
