The PR Wing Of The GOP

[Thumpalumpacus]

One person died. The vote was delayed for a few hours. The threat the right poses is not that they broke into a building and roughed up some cops.

You seem hung up on numbers rather than intent. Also, calling this breaking-and-entering is being deliberately obtuse. This is to burglary what vehicular manslaughter is to a fender-bender. You have the luxury of minimizing it because you don't have to face the threat of the American far-right. Your vote was not under attack. Mine was. Forgive me for thinking that your opinion is influenced in part by the fact that you have the luxury of not caring.

The threat of the right is their politics. It's their wanting to take away the right to abortion. It's their wanting to teach the wrong things to children in school. If you want to say that taking away abortion rights is worse than Pearl Harbor, then I'm right there with you and I would concur, but that is not what you are doing. The topic here is supposed to be J6 and what happened on that day. Not about the threat Republicans pose based on their political positions.

So you don't see a problem with their trying to overturn a legal and fairly-executed election? The threat from the far right is in part their politics, but what makes this instance threatening is the threat they posed -- and pose -- to our democracy itself.

You counsel a blasé approach to this, but I'm afraid I will never agree with that. I bet you don't joke about bombs at airports, either. Maybe that'll help you get my perspective, but I'm not hopeful. You've got no skin in the game. For my part, I find your outlook entirely unconvincing.

I notice that you didn't answer my question about media sources at all, and that makes me think you're not really interested in conversation but rather a wind-up, so I'll let this conversation go. I already know why I think your position is wrong, but you won't entertain that, clearly. Being a guy who doesn't like wasting my time, I won't be doing that with you on this topic, either.