It is no mystery why Republicans in the House are doing all they can to obstruct the Select House Committee investigation into the attempted violent overthrow of the United State Government on January 6 of this year. They are trying to protect the guilty amongst them.
Participants on January 6 being investigated are are naming names:
- Marjorie Taylor Greene R-Ga.)
- Paul Gosar (Ariz.)
- Lauren Boebert (Colo.)
- Mo Brooks (Ala.)
- Madison Cawthorn (N.C.)
- Andy Biggs (Ariz.)
- Louie Gohmert (Texas)
These are not surprising names, of course, since they have gone on a media blitz ever since the violence promoting the ridiculous Big Lie that the election was stolen and praising the violence. They do so proudly and in hopes of raising their political fortunes. Amazing.
The purpose of Big Lies is to establish authoritarian/fascist/JimCrow/dictatorial rule that destroys democracy and installs dictatorships. We saw this in the Jim Crow South after the election of 1876 where the Federal troops were withdrawn from the former Confederate states resulting in the disenfranchisement, abuse, and total subjugation of blacks until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The Big Lie was that the South fought a noble battle for freedom, rather than to keep and extend slavery.
We saw the purpose of Big Lies in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s when the "Stabbed in the Back" by Jews and Socialists Big Lie excused the loss of Germany in WWI, and created Nazis, Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust and about 70,000,000 deaths world wide.
The violence on January 6 wasn't just about a childish sore loser who was a poor sport. It was a real attempt to deny democracy. The subsequent flock of laws in Republican and swing states to set up election systems that will suppress the votes of people of color, and to set up systems to overturn election results if Republicans lose is a terrifying assault on democracy itself.
Let the investigation continue, deeply, and truthfully. Those responsible, including these five mini-authoritiarians and the Former Guy himself need to be stripped of all government powers, now and in the future, and spend a good deal of time in prison.
This isn't a dispute of competing political philosophies. This is about a very serious attempt to end democracy and establish fascist rule in our dear country.
Democracy is going to prevail.
