The Capitol Demonstration: Has the ‘Slippery Slope’ just become more steep?

Last week America witnessed at our Nation’s Capitol, what we have only seen in news footage of politically unstable countries. I believe many Americans watched their televisions with their hearts beating a little faster and a lot of heartbreak. Like many of my former colleagues, I’ve witnessed public uprisings on foreign soil. Also, like many of my former colleagues, I always thought; “This would never happen in America.” All the while I hear Jim Morrison’s ominous voice singing “This is the end, beautiful friend…”

My takeaway’s from all this:

1. Those that wholeheartedly believed Pres. Trump will continue to say that he (Trump) is the greatest POTUS ever and has done no wrong… no question about it.
2. The Impeachment vote, I believe was warranted, political, legal and a breakneck waste of taxpayer dollars.
3. The 25th Amendment would have been more damning to America’s global reputation than the current media coverage.

For all us civilians;

1. The left supporters will always scream whatever slogan there is against the right wing and abound in the more government oversight, a more inclusive race & equality agenda. The latter not really a bad thing.
2. The right supporters will always scream less government, anti-socialism, gun rights, deep state conspiracies and the media is a lie.

Right now we have more troops in Washington, DC than we have in Afghanistan. I only thought military patrolling INCONUS was a violation of Posse Comitatus? But, oh well, what do I know, right/. What will happen after Inauguration on the 20th? Are State Capitols actually going to experience any chaos? How many elected officials will still have a job after the next mid-term elections? Who will replace them? Will a new political party arise to challenge our two-party system?

A few years ago we heard the phrase “too big to fail” when referring to banks, auto makers and such. To that I disagree, I always believed we should have let the big corporations fail and rebuilt from there. America, on the other hand, really IS too big to fail. I do not want to experience a revolution involving 300 million citizens. If the happens, what will become of the lower 48? Will there be regional alliances or separate nation-states?

I fear. Not because all this scares me, but because I do not wish to see America crumble into a failed state. In the immortal words of Barry McGuire;

“Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’
I’m sittin’ here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of Senators don’t pass legislation

And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction”