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John Carter's avatar

It's consistently embarrassing how just plain dumb these supposed intellectual heavyweights are. They're all credential, no ability. Like the scarecrow, they have diplomas in place of brains. It's not even just that they're discourse consists entirely of sophistry; it's that they can't even do sophistry right.

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Anon38901932047's avatar

If the Jan 6 protesters had successfully taken over the capitol building it would have been roughly comparable to what protesters in Seattle accomplished back in 2020 with their "CHOP" or "Summer of Love" or "mostly peaceful arson festival" or "failed experiment in socialism" or whatever you choose to call it.

It wouldn't have amounted to a permanent takeover of the US federal government -- or anything else really. It certainly would not have destroyed Democracy, any more than Seattle's CHOP did. It would have amounted to a dull footnote in a history textbook, which is pretty much its status right now. In fact, that's the reason congressional Democrats schedule hearing after hearing after hearing about it: the whole mess is already fading from popular memory.

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