Remembering, To Avoid Repeating

TWO YEARS AGO TODAY, a day which will live in infamy among good Americans but will be largely, deliberatly overlookedand and forgotten by conservatives and Trump supporters and distored beyond recognition by right wing revisionist historians, a violent mob of main stream Republican Trump supportes tried to overthrow the American government in order to illegally keep Donald Trump in power by attacking the U.S. Capitol building, killing several people and permanently injuring hundreds more. Equally shocking, to this day the official description of the events of that day, of this nightmare, by the Republican party, as voted on by the Republican National Committee, is that the insurrrection was, in fact, "legitimate political discourse". Hence, the Republican party has officially designated itself a criminal, terrorist organization, albeit presumably unwittingly. It is not only of the greatest importance that we all remember the right wing insurrection of Donald Trump, but that also we always keep in mind two important facts regarding public reaction to it: that a large majority of conservative Christian Americans say to this day that the insurrection was either justified, or misinterpreted, and, that Trump's big lie upon which the violence was predicated, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, is true. It is, of course, and has been from the beginning, a complete fabrication. Most shameful of all is the desperate desire onthe part of conservative America to downplay or totally ignore the events of that horrible day, or to wildy misinterpret them. Considering all this, how can any decent, self respecting, morally decent American citizen even consider remaining a member of the Republican party? Everyone would agree that morals and character matter, among nation's, and among individuals. As to whether our society is currently in a state of moral decline is subject to the usual unending speculation, and is ultimately anyone's guess. It is observable that in every period of history, since at least the time of Socrates, who complained about the lack of ambition and courtesy among the youth in fifth cntury B.C. Athens, every generation of older adults condemns every generation of young people as lazy, irresponsible, disresptful of elders, and so forth. The fact, however, that one of the two major political parties in thes United States unreservedly endorses criminal activity, and that tens of millions of presumably well meaning citizens still support a political leader who tried to orchestrate a violent takeover of the government surely does not speak well of mainstream American cultural values in the futuristic year of 2023.