In a recent Salon interview, former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi calls for a large-scale “de-radicalization approach” to “Trump’s political cult members” who have been radicalized “for the last four years,” while stating the need to “deprogram” those who believe that Joe Biden did not win the recent presidential election. [More]
But it looks like Frank & Co. still have some wrinkles to iron out.
Just to be clear, it's not that the left is against the idea of "deprogramming" per se...
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Chicken or the egg... “Trump’s political cult members” or a bunch of pissed off people?
There is a reason that Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I - VT) almost beat the Democratic Party establishment's chosen one in the 2016 Democratic primaries. That reason still exists.
That reason also explains how a political beginner managed to beat every establishment Republican candidate in that party's primaries in that same year.
It is also the reason why that same political neophyte beat the Democratic candidate in the general and became President of the United States.
Then four years later, because the powers that be haven't acknowledged, much less addressed, that reason, he almost did it again, despite running in an election that if not rigged against him, certainly looked like his opponents tried their best to rig it.
The reason, you may well ask? At least half of the American electorate are furious with their self proclaimed political leadership, have lost faith in our public institutions, and are in a mood to find "the man behind the curtain" and make him pay for his misdeeds.
All in all, the events of January 6th, 2021 didn't shock me. Not one bit.
What shocked me was that it took so long for something like them to happen.
But then. a wiser man than I'll ever be once wrote:
“all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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