rubber soul

Okay, answer me this. Let's say Biden does get medieval on all the Trumpsters. How do you think they'll react? Do you think they'll just sit there and say "Gee, Mr. President, I'm sorry."? No, I think it will just put us one step closer to the second American Civil War.

I live forty miles from Washington and I can tell you first hand, the problem isn't Biden or Harris or even Trump. The problem is us. If I were a European, I wouldn't trust an American any farther than I could throw him. We've taken our "democracy" for granted that I don't think we even know what it means anymore. We demand instant gratification from our leaders and when we don't get it, we demand someone else. We're not a patient people. If someone says he will put us back to work, we expect to get a job the day after his inauguration. We're not a people that thinks in the long term. It's a big reason why we have to deal with global warming today for example, because we didn't want to make the sacrifices when we were warned twenty years ago.

Anyhow, there are only two ways to stop the madness and either of them are going to end in a lot of deaths. One is your solution, beget violence with violence and get your revenge. I think world history has shown that it isn't all it's cracked up to me. I mean like, how's the weather in Israel or Iran where and eye for an eye is very vogue?

The other way is the way of passive resistance. Yes, that too will end in a lot of deaths, but the hope here being that it shocks the world enough that the oppressors will be shrunk down to size. That has worked in India and even in the United States during the civil rights movement. If I have to go down, that's the way I'd prefer to go. To fight with love, not hate.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I guess what I'm trying to say is yes, we need to have justice but it can't be clouded by hate. Otherwise, we're just as low as the mob that stormed the Capitol.

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