Amus de Wauchope

As today progressed from morning, to evening, to now very late at night (or very early morning, depending on your perspective), I have to admit that I've gone from elation to now a sense of sadness and worry.  Regardless of what the blue checkmarks on Twitter say, the events at the Capital building were unilaterally good for America.  It wasn't a coup or insurrection, it was a riot - just a riot - and its form was no different from the countless other "mostly peaceful" riots which took place over the past year.  The obvious difference is that this riot took place in the Capital halls.

Surrounded by many thousands of Trump supporters, I have to imagine that today was the first day our representatives and senators ever experienced the tyranny of the majority first hand.  The government in Washington has utterly failed its responsibility to protect Americans' liberty and property.  If anything, the looming Great Reset and Green New Deal suggest that Congress is more interested in destroying freedoms than protecting them.

The easy and mainstream explanation of the anger expressed today at the Capital Building is that Trump whipped his supporters into a frenzy through is repeated claims the election was stolen.  This easy and mainstream answer discounts the recent history American politics and ignores the very reason Trump was elected to begin with.  The 2020 Presidential Election may have been the match which started this fire, but the fuel has been building for years.

How many times have the protestors simply asked to be listened to?  Conservative voices have been banned on social media.  Cultural norms and values have devolved into something foreign and truly repugnant.  In recent times, lawsuits and claims over the election interference have been dismissed without so much as a glance of the facts involved.  People have been forced to close their businesses, lose their homes, and witness their loved ones die lonely deaths due to tyrannical orders issued by democrat governors.  At every turn, we the people have been mocked and ridiculed by a media establishment or threatened with reeducation by Washington politicians.

At this point the December COVID-19 relief package passed by congress is old news - but that doesn't change the fact that everyone hates it.  It turns out, to no one's surprise, that Americans don't like giving $10MM of our money to fund a foreign country's gender studies program when Americans are suffering.  It should also come as no surprise that Congress outright refuses to pass a relief package which doesn't give away American treasure to countries whose population hates us.

What worries me is that this bill may have been the straw which finally broke the camels back, and now war looks increasingly likely.  Everyone, save the establishment, is angry about this bill and everyone seems to be hoping for some kind of confrontation against the powers that be.  The most boisterous Trump supporters seem to have given up on American democracy altogether and hope that Trump "crosses the Rubicon" to become an emperor.

The whole purpose of secession is to avoid war and the death and turmoil war brings.  Secession ensures the government enacts the will of the people.  If the residents or representatives of a state do not want to secede, then they remain in the Union.  Conversely, war will affect everyone and warlords hardly ever listen to the populace.

The differences between the states have become all too clear during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Democrats and blue states are enjoying the enforcement unconstitutional lock downs.  They jail people for opening their businesses then demand the Federal government pay unemployed workers' salaries.  Holidays have been cancelled, schools have been closed, and people have become hopelessly isolated from their family and friends.  And the people who live in blue states seem to like it.

Americans in Red States simply want to be left alone.  They want to run their lives and their businesses as they see fit.  Red Staters want to see their family to celebrate the upcoming Christmas holiday, and they are infuriated anyone would suggest they can't.

Most elected Republicans don't appear to have an actual opinion on the matter and simply hope whatever they say will get them reelected.

This is a tiny, minuscule fragment of the disagreements between red and blue states, but it does illustrate how different regions view authoritarianism.  The populace of blue states seem willing to acquiesce to authoritarians, as long as they get some meager restitution.  The residents of red states are unwilling to bow to authority even if they die in the process.