Commemorating Infamy

TRUMP'S INSURRECTION will go down, is going down in American history as among the most infamous of all events, ranking right up there in this dubious category with such tragedies as the assassination of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy and the Challenger space shuttle disasters. It is fitting and proper that the fifth anniversry of the trajedy was properly commemorated, with acknowledgment in the media, a ceremony on Capitol Hill,and the like. Arguably, however, this momentous anniversary received much less attention than it should have. It will surely be treated as an importan event by future historians and history books. Noteworthily absent was any participation in any of these commemorations by any American conservative or Republican, who in any event don't consider the deadly riot an attack on the nation's Capitol by Trump supporters to have been any big deal. The only response by Trump supporters was an incredibly lame revisionist explanation of the events of that horrible day, something to the effect that the violent insurrection, which nearly succeeded, was actually nothing other than a political campaign rally that got a bit out of control, or, even lamer, that it was actually a self guided tour of the Capitol building by an impromptu group of patriotic Americans which turned a tad rowdy. As they say, gimme a break. Revisionist explanations of observable phenominon surrounding Trump come fast and furious from the Karoline Leavitt-Joesph Goebbels ministry of propaganda.; Trump does and says a lot that has to be clarified, qualified, spun, respun, downplayed, and denied. You wondered how the regime would spin it the first time some poor good but unlucky American citizen got shot dead by some ultra right wing white suprecemacist gung ho punk member of Trump's I.C.E. gestapo. Now, you know, and its exactly what you suspected and feared from the start. A dangerous, violent terrorist woman was harassing law abiding law enforceing police officers, posint a clear and present danger.Out of sheer desperation and self defense, one of the intrepid American patriots sot and killed the terrorist, thus saving America from more harm. That's a lot of spin for a reality in which a lovely, productive,creative wife and mother of three was brutally, capriciously, senselessly murdered by the American government, also know as the Trump regime, or infmormally as the MAGA mafia. This is straight out of the fascist handbook. State police, pride and joy of the great and beloved leader, apprehending and disposing of a troublesome, insufficiently obedient and loyal recalcitrant pseudo citizen. Big Brother has taken the necessary action. Brave New World, Nineteen eighty Four, or both, reincarnated in temporal reality. Notice that you don't hear Trump, or Trump supporters for that matter, railing against the looming threat of comprehensive government surveillance of the American citizenry, or shooting out cameras in public places, warning us about future microchips in our brains, and such. As long as Trump is in power, and continues to represent their perceived personal interests, his supporters don't care how he got there, what he does in his spare time, or what methods he uses to remain perpetually in power and enforce his and the far right wing agenda. Said agenda includes kicking people of color out of he country, starting with the ones illegally living here, encouraging the immigration of Scandavanians, especially Norwegians, into an America which by their standards is chaotic, lawless, cut throat rat race with a low standard of living. It includes dismantling anything in America which smacks of dread socialism, including the government safety net for the poor. America under Trump has become precisely what Europeans and decent people generally despise and loathe to behold here in the supposedly shining city on a hill, a corporate security state with a propped up petty tyrant for a fuhrer.