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Lillymon posted...

A lot of Americans seem to be in denial about just how bad 1/6 was and still is. It seemed at the time to be an attempted coup that failed but has since seen the President who pushed for it re-elected, officials who supported it dominating the government, the people who actively participated in it now pardoned, and the plan to replace American democracy with their chosen brand of despotism now well under way.

In reality it became an ongoing coup that is now on the verge of succeeding. It may not be as deadly as 9/11 was but it's a thousand times as dangerous.

This.

Essentially, 1/6 was the Republican party officially putting political violence on the table as one of its options any time they don't get what they want.

And the post 1/6 reaction from US institutions, most particularly the mainstream media, has been "sounds good to us, we don't care about accountability for any of this".

I think the failure rate by US institutions here is nearly 100%. Although Democratic party leadership and the mainstream media are probably the two worst offenders, it is now crystal clear that any institutions that are rich are nearly always corrupted by that wealth at least to the extent of being made cowards by any threat to that wealth.