As you can imagine, there's lots of scrambling going on by the people on the other side.
They're trying to normalize what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday. You can almost predict it.
You know: It's just a couple of bad apples. That's really not who we are. Might even be antifa.
No, and no, and no. Those assertions aren't true. They know it, too.
This has been coming for a while now. There are several conduits, but they all lead to the same place: anarchy and lawlessness.
45, who led this nonsense, is now acting as if it was out of his hands. His rhetoric is suddenly shocked, shocked that something like this even happened. What a weasel.
Not a couple of bad applies, 40,000 of them. That's nearly a full house at Miller Park, now known as American Family Field in Milwaukee.
Ever been there? Cheering for a late home run to win the game, you can feel the intensity. Quite a force to be unleashed anywhere, any time.
And then what if someone said it would be a good idea to go to an umpire's house and give him a hard time? What if it were announced on the loudspeaker? What if the pennant was on the line? Would their emotional state tend to distort the effects?
Uh-huh. And whoever called them to do that would be responsible for getting them riled up. Whatever injuries and damage that resulted would be on their hands as well as the actual perpetrators.
These are adults. They ought to know how to act. They'll tell you a bad call was made (even though it wasn't bad) and they had the right. They know that isn't so. They know they're supposed to be decent.
Their resentment found a new place to fester, based on false claims of fraudulent vote counts that all kinds of courts had already thrown out. Self-pity and entitlement are a fetid stew. They can turn people ugly, and they did.
Now that it's done, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley (does he ever scare me) are trying to sweep their tracks by now acting as if they're the modicum of normality and civilized behavior, when in fact they were at the center of it becoming genuinely unraveled. They should be disciplined by the Senate.
You know what they're doing: They're posting new phrases to soon claim that they were merely misunderstood. That's not true, That IS who they are: fomenters of sedition and insurrection. Craven cynics who think they'll gain politically.
They're using normal phraseology to restore a mentality of a one-off. But 'normal' can't be stretched that far.
What took place can't be unseen. Everybody else knows how to act when they enter the people's house, but these jackasses can't be decent in an outhouse.
They can't wear masks, either. On top of everything else, that was a superspreader event. But 45 has led the way there, too.
To those who still insist that all we have to do is sit down with these people and reason with them, I give you the evidence. You go do that. Let me know how it goes. I will mingle (when I can) with people who really do want to think.
I tried hard when I taught. But too many were already locked in. Too many thought it was all a joke. Nuke 'em, they used to say, as if the shock of that would get a laugh.
That wore thin after a while. It wasn't productive. To destroy things is not the answer. To act stupid intentionally helps nothing.
Now they're caught in a loop. They practically have to act as if there's no other way out. Look at the Republican House members. It's claimed them. Normally, such actions would be disdained. Now they're celebrated, as at the Republican National Committee.
We are in trouble, my friends. The Republican Party is ruining America. Before, it was just Reagan, but they never shook him off. He's their patron saint now. But 45, this bag of garbage, is their living lord and savior.
"Our long national nightmare is over," said Gerald Ford half an hour after Richard Nixon was escorted off the White House property. And it was. But this nightmare is just getting started.
Be well. Be careful. Wear a mask. One day closer to a vaccine. With some luck, I'll see you down the road.
Mister Mark
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