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HARD TRUTH, conclusion

by Marrying the Wrong Man. Despite the Those responsible for the failed coup lutely unacceptable and ludicrous.
obvious drawbacks of an unsuitable mar- of January 6, 2021, are likewise caste- “Was the insurrection/coup attempt
riage and having to make up from scratch driven—Rupert Murdoch (FOX media), aimed at unity by trying to disavow what the
an entirely new life, I do not regret my Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, the Kochs, majority of Americans voted for? Trump’s
move, because it meant I did not go back to Donald Trump, Republican leadership at own Cybersecurity Chief confirmed that the
live in the South. national and state levels all the way back 2020 election was the most secure ever
If you have not lived in the South, you to Reagan, White Supremacists, religious and the Georgia Secretary of State con-
cannot know the South. I personally love nationalists (those last two have overlap firmed the same as did Pennsylvania with
the South though I cannot live there myself. but are not identical), Heritage Foundation the only fraud being by GOP voters. The
Some of the people I love best in the world true-believers who want to disempower/ GOP and their FOX/Limbaugh enablers
live in the South and would live nowhere defund/destabilize the U.S. government need to be called out for blatantly using and
else. Indeed many—maybe even MOST— so the bottom 90 percent cannot use that spewing those lies to demean our election
White Southerners would live nowhere government to level the playing field and system so they could ultimately try to hijack
else. Even liberal Southerners feel this way. control the excesses of the richest families it.”
“Why on Earth would I want to go live with a and corporations, QAnon and the webs of
lot of Yankees?” conspiracy, and foreign states/actors which Hard Truth #3
The truth is that Southern culture is want to destabilize the US, period. Not
deeply caste driven, beginning with de- incidentally social media giants apparently The failed coup may yet prove to be
manding that toddlers address their elders could have short-circuited Trump (and to a crucible moment for Americans. On June
as Ma’am and Miss (from Madam and some extent QAnon) at any time. 9, 1954, at the pinnacle of anti-communist
Mistress), as Mister (Master) and Sir (Sire). One would really love to be a stinging fears and witchhunts, lawyer Joseph
Even liberal Southerners feel themselves fly on the wall when Rupert Murdoch meets Welch, testifying for the U.S. Army, asked
superior, never mind the middle and the his Maker, which odds are won’t be long extreme rightwing Senator Joe McCarthy,
poor (so long as they can look down on now. May his karma ripen swiftly. Namaste. “Have you no sense of decency?”
People of Color)—in manners, in cuisine, in To quote my good friend “Anonymous”, My other good friend “Anonymous” (no
language, in friendship, family and values— “GOP members of the House and Senate... relation) shared this:
and look down on the rest of the USA. conspired via their vote against accept- “There are three stages to the adop-
Exceptions to this rule are Old Guard Civil ing the Electoral College vote/report, [and tion of the truth. In the first stage, the truth
Rights, anti-war and union folks, and in any thereby they] committed sedition/treason is ridiculed. In the second stage, the truth
case almost invariably brown of skin. against the Constitution and America, and is fought. In the third stage, the truth is
Think Israel and Palestine. Palestin- deserve no wiggle room to distract/divert/ adopted by all as self-evident.”
ians have never forgotten that they are a spin to pretend this was about ‘policy’ differ- The failed coup of January 6, 2021,
people, wherever they are. Likewise the ences. This was a damn insurrection led by has forced many—both people in power,
South, in place or in diaspora. The Trum- Trump and facilitated by the GOP to create and even some of Trump’s base—to
pery Confederacy, if you like. Trump, the a slingshot dictatorship! admit perhaps for the first time the terrible
GOP and rightwing media have empowered “They have to pay, end of story, full dysfunction of this administration. Too often
these people, in every state now—impos- stop! These jerks are not ‘patriots’! They it takes a great shock to change minds
sible to contain or create a Confederate are traitors! GOP members of Congress enough to create historic change.
homeland or reservations. Without some went back to the floor and voted against the Those whose eyes have opened, and
national accounting, and a lot of commit- Electoral College certification of the vote now social media too, have been forced
ment to peace and reconciliation work by confirming Joe Biden as President-Elect! to admit that the truth matters, indeed that
communities and individuals, we could still Those GOP members did that based on untruth risks the very foundation of our
be headed for a long stretch of insurrection. Trump’s and their bald-faced lies, which Democracy.
led to and facilitated the insurrection and In the face of the greatest internal
Hard Truth #2 attempted coup! threat to our government since the Eigh-
“These same GOP members continue teen Sixties, magnified by the here-to-fore
The coup-makers must face conse- to lie, even as they call for ‘unity’ and say unknown power of social media, culminat-
quences. If we are to be a society governed that impeachment will be ‘divisive.’ Abso- ing in the U.S. Capitol attack, our Democ-
by law, justice must be pursued. Let the racy has survived. So far.
mills of justice take as long as they take,
just so long as the job gets done. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 NE REPORT, P. 15