January 20th, 12:00 PM
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Washington DC
These have been years of outright lying, manipulation and the sowing of hatreds to divide Americans from one another.
The Justice Department has been polluted and has compromised the Constitution.
Department Secretaries with vested, greedy interests have been posted to subvert the intent of the agencies they lead.
The courts have been packed with incompetents and ideologues.
The Department of Defense leadership has been given over to ignorant sycophants of the President.
The agency that brilliantly fought in cyberspace for our election integrity has been decapitated.
The intelligence agencies have been infested with know-nothings of worrisome security risk.
The former President was impeached for extortion and obstruction of Congress, but nearly all of the Republican senators, in an unconscionable act of subservience, did what they always do: they collapsed into pitiful, spineless blobs and refused to stand up to the criminal and convict him. They refused to even look at the evidence.
The former President wailed phantasmagorical fantasies, claiming he won the election. He brayed vacuous accusations of voting fraud everywhere, especially accusing minority cities, while providing no evidence at all. That’s because voting fraud didn’t happen, so his dozens of lawsuits were laughed out of court. At the same time he reveled in his victimhood, his most consistent whine. It was all in an effort to subvert the will of the people, to retain power to which he was not entitled and to draw ever more cash contributions from his followers.
Worst of all, he incited a riot of insurrection and sedition, hoping to knee cap Congress and stay in power. That resulted in desecration of the Capitol Building, threats to the safety of every member of Congress and 5 people were killed. That led to his richly deserved second impeachment.
The large, 15 stripes flag that inspired the lyrics of the US national anthem when it flew above Fort McHenry in the 1814 Battle of Baltimore. Click the pic for more.
There have been far more efforts to undermine and crush our democracy by the former President and his faithless enablers. But a few good people and the Constitution have stood in the way of his anti-democracy malfeasance, such that our democracy has survived this four-year-long dark night.
Even in the face of the former President’s war against this country we now have a new President and a new Vice-President, as directed by the Constitution.
It was said long ago:
“And the rocket’s red glare,
“The bombs bursting in air,
“Gave proof through the night
“That our flag was still there.”
Our flag is still there. And it’s up to those of us who believe in democracy to do the hard work to stop the lie and keep our flag flying.
Today, this day, we gather the scattered blocks and begin to build anew.
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