Murray
Full Member
It seems to me that many of the rioters really thought they were the good guys – no attempts to hide their faces, lots of people videoing each other. Sadly, Trump wasn’t there lead them as promised.
See, this is where I get a wee bit conflicted. Because if you really, truly believe that your democracy is being overthrown and the election stolen, and that the justice system is equally crooked, then direct action isn’t unreasonable. In fact you could argue it’s brave.
The fact that you have to be an absolute cretin to actually believe these things is important, but it doesn’t really change those basics. One man’s terrorist, etc.
Of course, the number of people that will accept that logic for these dudes, or believe that it’s their civic duty to turn out on the 20th and make an armed stand and maybe die a heroic death to protect democracy, that and also accept it for say Palestinians throwing rocks at an Israeli soldier or someone strapping on a bomb vest and blowing up an invading US army checkpost in Iraq, is not going to be very big.