POST-ELECTION RECAP
Save the date! Join us Sunday, November 10 for our quarterly subscriber event...
Save the date!
We’re hosting our quarterly event for paid Substack subscribers Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 5pm PT/8pm ET and want you to join us!
During this special Community Virtual Town Hall on Zoom, we’ll host a Post-Election Round Up. We’ll share our thoughts and feelings for America’s future and consider ways to provide healing for our national wounds.
If you are a paid subscriber, you will receive Zoom access details the morning of the event.
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With anticipation,
Marianne
Here's one thought for the Virtual Town Hall.
There is still time to save a constitution that embodies the principles of democracy.
Over 50 years ago Stanley Milgram surprised everyone when he showed that most of us are obedient to an authority, whether benevolent or otherwise. With this knowledge, the current administration can expect obedience from the police, the military, and most of the population, if the US President Elect is declared not fit to become President unless he is tried and found not guilty of insurrection.
Such a declaration will doubtless lead to social unrest and life-threatening conflict, but so will meekly handing over the Presidency to a convicted felon, sexual offender, and would-be dictator intent on destroying the US Constitution. Democracy consists of more than accepting the will of a party that has chosen to abandoned the Constitution, especially when that choice has been manipulated by thousands of lies encouraged by the biased media. It also depends on the rule of law and the application of laws without fear or favour. With delaying tactics, Trump’s lawyers have consistently used procedures designed to prevent injustice to promote injustice. By so doing they have undermined faith in the law, the consequences of which have yet to be seen.
Several scholars warned the Supreme Court of the Unites States (SCOTUS) that if it did not disqualify Trump for trying to overturn the election when it had the chance, it would become harder to do so later. That has happened. Just as Hitler became harder to stop when encouraged by appeasement, Trump will become harder or perhaps impossible to stop if he becomes President.
SCOTUS may have intended their “Presidential Immunity” ruling to assist Trump, but the same immunity applies to Biden – but only for the next few weeks. He should use it. Trump used his authority illegally in his pursuit of power for himself. Biden would be using his authority legally, to defend the Constitution, a higher duty than arranging for a “peaceful” transfer of power to a dangerous criminal.
If Biden lacks the courage, then he should hand over to Harris. If she lacks the courage then democracy, and the Constitution that champions it, may become just a memory.
Brlund
Of your upcoming Virtual Town Hall you write, "We’ll share our thoughts and feelings for America’s future and consider ways to provide healing for our national wounds," and I have to ask, what the fuck are you talking about? The Civil War was a national wound, as was Vietnam and Afganistan and 9/11.
I don't get the impression you are talking about any of those national wounds, rather, it seems, you are talking about some sense of personal grief regarding the outcome of our most recent election.
If that is the case, then the healing for which you long is available. Look no further. It's called growing up. When you grow up you lose the sense that you are positioned in the center of the world and that everything revolves around you. Once freed of that incorrect perspective your sense of being a wounded victim goes away and you can, at last, participate positively in the ongoing sagas and adventures of your society without being a drag.
If I am incorrect in my understanding of your usage of "national wounds" I apologize in advance for my ignorance and insensitivity.