Think for a moment that it’s May 2012 and Tea Parties riot outside the White House so wild that POTUS Obama needs to be taken to the bunker and the military brought in to restore order.
Would it be called an insurrection or would it be “haha Obama for running to the bunker”?
Would it be called an insurrection or would it be “haha Obama for running to the bunker”?
People stormed Senate buildings in Sep-Oct of 2018 to try to stop the sacred moment of approving a new SCOTUS Justice. More than 400 were arrested (120 one day in Sep; 293 one day in Oct).
My point? Nothing is but for what it’s called. This was not called an insurrection.
My point? Nothing is but for what it’s called. This was not called an insurrection.
PDs were burned down last year and so was a federal court building. Both those institutions uphold our (on-paper) “democracy.” This means that attacking those is an attack on democracy; the start of a localized insurrection. Is it packaged this way by media/GOP? Sure not!
The more you observe the gap between recent action and how it is packaged, the more you can conclude that many “historical moments” were probably not what you read that they were. You are merely reading how people chose to sell it to you for whatever agenda they have or had.
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