What if the truth about Jan. 6 is revealed -- and the American people just don't care?

[marmar]

What if the truth about Jan. 6 is revealed — and the American people just don't care?
Republicans have thoroughly rewritten the history of Jan. 6 — are the media and public too exhausted to resist?

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2, 2021 9:44AM


(Salon) Reality is being rewritten before our eyes. Some Americans can see this, and understand it. The results include an inescapable feeling of dread and doom. The frustration mounts because as a group those who see the truth and are ready to speak it do not yet have the full vocabulary required to make sense of it all.

Too many other Americans appear not to care about the blatant effort by the Republican fascists and others to rewrite reality. They are indifferent or tired, or just so hyper-focused on their own lives that nihilism and surrender are preferable to confrontation and engagement. Others are either incapable or unwilling, or remain in a profound state of denial.

This is not a claim about some grand secret conspiracy. It's an observation about how people function in a society caught in an interregnum, that time of in-betweenness when the old is giving way to something new (and potentially something horrible), when truth and reality are being dismembered by fascists and their fellow travelers. It all feels like a confusing slow blur.

For those of us who do care and who choose to see the truth, what do we do when the final form, the entire ugliness behind America's crisis of democracy, is finally revealed?

On Jan. 6, Donald Trump and his cabal attempted a coup to overthrow American democracy. As part of that coup plot, Trump's followers launched a lethal terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol. These events were publicly announced by Trump, his spokespeople, allies and followers. America's political elites, including too many among the news media, chose to ignore these warnings or somehow convince themselves that it was all "hyperbole." ..........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/11/02/what-if-the-truth-about-jan-6-is-revealed--and-the-american-people-just-dont-care/

[Stuart G]

1. Thank You for posting...K and R..The "Truth" about 1/6 is really ugly, but we all need to know it.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... the Trumpsters won't care. They consider the event a great moment in history. Their regrets would only be that the tyrants lived and Biden became President.

[mitch96]

8. "Trumpsters won't care." I think they won't BELIEVE it, call it fake news, stolen election

stick their head in the sand when the truth hits them in the face yelling LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA.......... ymmv
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[NewHendoLib]

3. Lots of apathy, driven by narcissism, greed, propaganda.

It would not surprise me in the least.

[Lovie777]

4. Sane Americans will care and want justice . ....

[Baitball Blogger]

5. We know this: 30% won't care.

[Pisces]

6. Very few on the right will care. The left will be furious and nothing

Will come if it. No one of influence or power will be arrested. It will be just a bunch of dust devils. This is why the left is demoralized. It’s exhausting to care and see nothing the right does no matter how outrageous will ever be held to account. Furthermore it’s getting increasingly clear that there may be more violence and Republicans are cheering it on.

Where are the new laws limiting a Presidents behavior? All the rules and conventions Trump flouted that should be actual laws??? The nepotism? The unqualified advisors etc.
We haven’t reassured the world that a Trump anomaly will never happen again. We are set up for that and worse because the public doesn’t care.

[Girard442]

7. Remember the good old days when we were all confident the public would turn on Trump...

...the moment they saw what a total dirtbag/bully/racist/fascist he was?

Turns out they always saw the same Trump we did -- but they liked him. Jan 6 is pretty much the same. They all know what happened that day, but they're OK with it.

On edit: add failed businessman and fraud.

[lees1975]

9. There is a high level of ignorance about the Constitution, the government and January 6th

And it's frustrating to be engaged in a conversation with someone who just writes it off as "oh, well," or even worse, has no idea what you are talking about when you reference January 6th.

What I don't understand is how the plotting and planning can be so obvious, and criminal by any measure of constitutional law, yet it takes an act of Congress, literally, to prosecute. But people are more interested in flashy pictures and posts on tic tok or instagram and how to put more money in their pockets than they are in seriously protecting their rights. The whole purpose behind compulsory, publicly supported education was to preserve the Republic by having a reasonably educated electorate.

The corporately supported media, despite conservative thinking that it is the "liberal, mainstream media" depends on corporate bucks to run, so it will not report anything that the corporate elite doesn't want reported.

Give credit where credit is due, CNN is running an expose of the whole mess.

[marie999]

10. I believe well over 50% of people don't care or wish it had worked.

[kacekwl]

11. If something isn't done until 2022 or

because justice takes time maybe 2025. By that time there won't be a Democratic party to care or remember.

[pfitz59]

12. Where is Merrick Garland?

I watched his testimony before Congress. Not impressed. He let the GQP shit-birds grandstand and overtalk him. Appears the 'ivory tower' type, when we need a pit-bull. Trump and his ilk cannot be allowed to escape their crimes.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R