By Ashley Herndon, contributing columnist
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | Possibly the most watched horrifying event in political history since the JFK assassination was the January 6 insurrection. It was evil incarnate, evil in action, and planned evil. Yet what one presumes are reasonably intelligent elected officials and their followers attack the people’s house and the sacred seat of self-governance and have actually lied their way into people accepting an unapologetic coup attempt!
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What have these folks been smoking, drinking, and mainlining? Rampant fear forced upon freely elected fellow citizens by thieving and lying (leaders?). The photos of these events are forever etched in our minds.
Now we have an ex-governor, Nikki Haley, snaking around the country hiding from the horrors of slavery, and a current second-term governor, Ron DeSantis, saying the enslaved were better off having been pieces of chattel property? This is also in the snake pit. Are these two following Putin’s playbook?
Meanwhile an ex-president who helped foment a “Hang Mike Pence” gallows is currently leading in his party’s primary run.
As Jill Colvin of Associated Press, wrote earlier this year:
- Many of these folks claim allegiance to a long dead young rabbi who taught Agape…wonder what he thinks of this blasphemous behavior?
- Have we become a sick country?
- Have we become a country populated with a growing number of enraged-uncivilized-uneducated-bullies who are captivated and controlled by a bully who happens to be an ex-president and his toadies in Congress and some state houses?
Enough is enough already.
Governing the USA in city council meetings, and county commissions and statehouses is not a “Mad Max” sequel.
We should reawaken what Dr. Joseph Lister (1827 -1912) once said “We need help getting the surgery required to rid us of this bacterial invasion that has descended upon our great nation and society!”
Slavery and fascism are at least kissing cousins if not brother and sister.
What’s the deal here? We must resist, reclaim and rebuild. And do it today.
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