@lalbo-81 wrote:
And my youngest son wouldn't be in DC right now either. He's a member of the National Guard. Please pray fot him, and all of the sane citizens of my country. We don't deserve this insanity.
Firstly, I hope your son stays safe, it must be a worry for you. I have a son in the police force and you do worry about some of the loonies out there and what can happen.
I know you're worried about Trump and about him getting back into power, maybe in 2024. No matter what happens with impeachment, I'd be pretty sure that's one worry you can toss out. Things move on and a losing politician is pretty much a spent force. By 2024, who knows where we will be and by then you'll have other politicians jostling for position, don't you worry about that. Think of Hilary Clinton, up there in 2016, nowhere in the race in 2020. Times move on.
But the main factor is Trump will be about 78 by then. Anything can happen to a person's health once they hit that age. I am not saying it will, as I have an aunt in her 90s who was in the pink at 78, and at 88 for that matter, but I don't think it's the norm. Donald will move on to other interests.
Now as to 'we don't deserve this insanity'. The sane ones never do. But it hasn't blown in out of nowhere. I'm a bit of a believer in the fact that anything that happens generally has several factors leading up to it. The USA over the last 12 months seems to have had a lot of violence, a lot of riots, a lot of marches. When that sort of thing becomes almost the norm, you can expect copy cat behaviour.
I don't think your federal or state politicians have done enough to quell that sort of thing. It's not just Trump. When there were cities burning, some of the democrat state leaders were up there saying most of the rioters were peaceful and well behaved, which may be true, but doesn't address the problem. It's apologist behaviour.
Same situation in the latest trouble. Quite possibly most of the demonstrators were 'peaceful and well behaved' but again, the problem is those who weren't.
Next in line is the fact that the election was in Nov and the USA is still messing around and has not yet had a hand over of power. Yes, I know it is 'tradition' but it is one tradition that probably needs to change. For almost 3 months every 4 years, no matter how peaceful things are, you have a lame duck president in power, just marking time. Your country would be far better having a hand over in early Dec at latest, that gives (usually) time for results to be well known but not too much time for trouble making. Once someone is in power, most people accept it.
Then there is the gun culture, where more people in USA find it easier to own a gun and it can make violence easier. Well, maybe not violence as such but it can make consequences more serious as a gun wound is likely to be more lethal than a kick.
I blame your politicians for a lot of the trouble, they have not seemed to be working with any cohesion or leadership during the pandemic, they have let that get right out of hand, they have not done enough to stomp on some of the violence over the last 12 months. The majority of people in US are (I believe) sane and sensible, but some of the loonies seem to be getting out of hand.
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