United States is Unsustainable Part II
The obsession with January 6 represents an irreconcilable divide among the citizenry
Today marks three years since Trump supporters rioting at the Capitol following the disputed 2020 election. The Regime and their allies in the corporate press not only insist this was a violent insurrection that nearly toppled what they consider to be our “sacred” democratic form of government, but they also insist its importance can’t be overstated and it’s on par with past historical events like Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Our ruling elite successfully used the past attacks by Islamic terrorists and the Japanese military to expand their power and they seek to do the same with January 6. There is one obvious problem, however. January 6 was not an attack by a foreign adversary. While its significance is wildly exaggerated, to the extent it was really anything, it was a domestic uprising. So in order to use it for political purposes, you have to demonize a group of Americans rather than some overseas boogeyman.
The attempts to isolate Trump and his MAGA movement into a fringe minority that the vast majority of Americans condemn and side against has proven impossible. Rather than letting this incident fade in memory and depoliticizing it, The Regime and its propagandists have gone into overdrive to whip up the Democrat base every year and have them believing that anyone who doesn’t hate Trump enough is a threat to their very way of life. And rather than the majority of Republicans falling in line behind the current government and condemning their former allies who “went too far,” they have doubled down on their devotion to Trump and MAGA.
This is a symptom of a country that no longer has any common bonds. The government and corporate media have lost the ability to enforce their narrative, to manipulate the majority of the population to embrace a common viewpoint on a perceived threat. Their attempts to do so, rather than causing unity the way we saw in 2001, end up causing further division in an already deeply divided society.
This is unsustainable.