I had been anxious building up to last week and my specific anxiety proved prescient:
We are on our way to moving forward - moving forward past family members in charge of important rollouts, past TV personalities in charge of agencies, past governing-by-conspiracy-theory and a dozen other things specific to the last few years that have diminished our lives.
But there is at least one last gasp left in the movement that tried to decapitate the government of our United States on the 6th.
Tomorrow, Donald Trump is going to speak at the Alamo in Texas. The choice of sending a message by picking a venue is clear. The Alamo isn't remembered for "Peaceful Transitions of Power".
The same people who were smart enough to cancel conventions and have as many of their folks work from home as possible when the Pandemic began are smart enough to see the emerging threat now. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Web Services, Google.... all of these have made some effort to slow down the coordination of planned violence in the United States.
Violent Coups, Civil Wars, Theocracies, and permanent minority rule are all bad for business. Big Tech has acted accordingly.
Even people who don't follow the news closely can almost feel "something". The shelves were clear of many staple items as I stocked up for a family of four. We are a nation of soft targets, a shooter or bomber convinces of some online idiocy could hurt a lot of people in some city or community he or she decides is "evil".
The Pandemic is at it's peak here and not slowing down because we chose this particular moment to get extra stupid and belligerent. The emergency rooms would be in dire straights to treat mass casualties and Covid-19 in most places.
If you lean towards Trump, and you hear me or anyone else dissuade you from joining in the ruckus, please, please. Don't. People are losing family, friends, careers, and lives over this and this particular man is - without ANY doubt - not worth it.
Just so you know, I was not allowed to post my original comment.
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