MAGA-inspired Attack on Capitol
Was A Despicable Act
Lack of Shame, Remorse Make Recovery Impossible for Some
By Steve Rensberry
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (RPNews-OPINION) -- 1/7/2024 -- I don't care which way you try to spin it, the attack that took place at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, was disgusting and stupid. A noble cause? A movement to "save the country" from "evil Democrats" and "woke liberals"? A spiritual awakening or prophetic occurrence? Sorry, but it was none of these, as much as the black-and-white-thinking folks who either defend or participated in it would like to think. The full report.
There is no need to tell the story, yet again, because we all know what we saw with our own eyes. For those who still values facts over ideology, one source of data among many is the organization American Oversight, which has provided an update on the investigation and news on all of those involved, including on state and local levels. See: The January 6 U.S. Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But here we are in 2025, while many of us are hoping for peace and some degree of civility, when an angry, hyper-political, vengence-filled veteran like Matthew Alan Livelsberger loses it mentally and kills himself while intentionally blowing up a Tesla truck, all to make a point that we should embrace the "hegenomy" (Livelsberger's chosen word) and aggressive type of toxic, bullish masculinity represented by Trump, Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr., showing zero empathy toward other Americans who think differently, and that Dems should be violently removed from power along with anyone else deemed a threat. Are we still living in America, a Constitutional Republic built on democratic principles and a desire to live in peace?
Why
are people not straight up arrested and charged when they make threats
of violence against others like this, like Trump himself has done? We'd be naive to think such terrorist-style leadership was not influential with Livelsberger, fueling the idolization of such behavior. Do those who voted for him have an answer? Does it matter? Do free speech rights
include the right to slander someone or make death threats (direct or
implied), which Trump has done repeatedly? No.
I sometimes wonder if the
entire nation is preparing to go over the edge in one big mass cultish
end-it-all scenario, similar to what happened with James Warren Jones. Everyone will be gone, but it'll all be okay because
they'll just be resting comfortably in heaven, or perhaps hell. Up is down. Down is up. Life is hell. Death is good. Fundamentist evangelicals believe their God thinks liberals and "woke" Americans are evil, so anything goes, right? Is that how the new Domination-At-Any Cost MAGA radicals think?
The irony is that those making and encouraging this type of thinking appear to many of us more as bullies than tough guys. Whatever toughness they hope to project is negated by their overwhelming bigotry and phony masculinity. Like made-up and choreographed World Wide Wrestling matches, they lack integrity, emotion, and humanitarian elements. It's a show, a disingenuouis, threatening, violent-when-necessary show that helps them get their way.
