https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/06/jan-6-american-attitudes-polling-trump/
Politically, the conventional wisdom is that Trump has successfully rewritten the narrative; he’s “retconned” it, to use a popular term. And it’s not just an academic question; as Trump prepares to pardon many participants in the Capitol insurrection, perceptions of that day will matter when it comes to how practical that decision will be and how it will reflect on Trump.
After the dust settled on the insurrection four years ago, YouGov showed Americans overwhelmingly agreed on the very basic threshold question of whether the rioters were bad. More than 8 in 10 Americans and even three-quarters of Republicans disapproved of them. More than 7 in 10 Americans “strongly” disapproved.
That suggests that only about half of the political middle is truly animated by this topic.
The biggest movement hasn’t been from “Jan. 6 bad” to “Jan. 6 good,” but rather from “Jan. 6 bad” to people saying they’re “not sure” just how bad it is — which for some might just be “I don’t care enough to say.” Just 9 percent of Americans declined to offer a verdict in January 2021; today, 19 percent do.
There's a "book" it essay by aryeh Kaplan called "If you were G-d"
ReplyDeleteIn it he sets an exercise for his readers to design a world where people can live together peacefully. And you're given all the supernatural powers except for the one restriction. Is that the people don't know about you or what you're doing.
His goal by this pathetic exercise is to show how the world runs and why we don't understand things like the Holocaust. The fallacy in it is that throughout the Torah is talking about there being a God in Israel who makes himself known.
It seems that you are going along a similar path trying to make some big deal about a regretful event in American history that has no remedy.
That's not the mess genocide of the natives nor is it the slavery of millions of Africans. It's the ridiculous riot where maybe one person was killed. And why is there no remedy? Well here's the fallacy just like in Mr. Kaplan's book. America is a democracy, a democrat government for 4 years. Then it also has a constitution which allows a president a degree of immunity and also gives him the rights to pardon anyone he likes.
What's heretical about captain's book is that he misrepresents the Torah, although that's typical of his works anyway.
What is illogical about your posts on this subject is that you have a legal system and a democrat-led government who could have carried out justice. But perhaps you're not happy with the American Constitution? (Just like Kaplan isn't happy with the Torah and has to make up new parts to it)
Wow!
DeleteYou are really trying hard to make a mountain into a mole hill
Why? What would Shakespeare say about that? hint try Macbeth
Bottom line is that trump has gotten off Scot free, and even if he receives a sentence or criminal record , he will pardon himself.
DeleteSo it's America that allows this to happen.
Who did biden pardon? Clue, Hamlet..