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Dear Editor:
The violence at the United States Capitol was an attempt to deny the American people their democratic voice.
The coup attempt was not unintended. The President himself mobilized thousands of armed and violent right-wing extremists to the District of Columbia. The President attended the rally, spoke to them, and gave them the ideological fire to break through barricades and occupy the Senate and House chambers.
The President does not stand alone in fomenting this coup attempt. The Arizona Republican Party, along with a dozen Republican Senators, including our own Senator, Mike Braun, have spread lies about the election and encouraged and nurtured violent reaction.
The GOP must be held accountable as an entire political party for enabling Trump, supporting his organized militias, and creating the conditions that made this coup attempt inevitable.
The anti-democratic forces that overtook the Capitol have committed the exact same acts of violence in Oregon and Michigan where they stormed the state capitol buildings there and plotted to kidnap the Governor of Michigan. Indeed, there, too, the President and the GOP enabled the violence. They met no resistance by Republican officials, because it furthered their collective agenda to undo the democratic will of the people in those states.
The coup plotters are not patriots. They want to take away the power of working people to elect their representatives at all levels of government. Democracy as it exists in the United States is purposefully flawed, yet it is often the only tool by which working people can exercise their political will.
What remains of our democracy at this point must be guarded and this attempt to destroy it must be called by what it is – a right-wing coup.
Jason Jones
Fishers
If the violence on Capital Hill was a right wing coup, what was the Russian Collusion, the Muller Report, Ukrainian Made up scandal and the Impeachment? It was a left wing coup that have made Americans across our nation very angry with four years of lies we have had to endure and paid for by all taxpayers. We want our money back.
There’s some sort of tragic irony in that a nation borne of a unified resistance to tyranny is now digesting itself from within & is fractured in it’s view of what the country should be, & who it should be for.
Hard to believe that apparently millions of us are so easily suckered & quick to anger.
The careers of countless social scientists will be made trying to figure it out.
Frank, have you ever heard of the Loyalists during the American Revolution, much less the even larger block of people who tried to avoid involvement/remain neutral?
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.”
– MLK