What is your personal theory about Jan 6. I am curious no matter how wild it may sound. I remember when it happened I figured some over zealous Trump supporters got out of hand. I never dreamed there would be this insane level of hysteria over it. I was initially shocked about the hand wringing over this after seeing the destruction of the summer of love as well as seeing other groups protesting at or in the capital. It is hard for me to take seriously the idea that it was an insurrection because if their goal was to take over the government that was a pretty lousy effort and same goes for Trump. Plus you got people still in jail over this.
What do y'all think is behind all this? I also find it odd how there is no curiosity about Ray Epps.
We all lived through it, saw the unedited livestream footage from it, and despite all evidence see how that compares to how media is treating it.
It doesn't take much imagination to conclude EVERY "historical" event we think we know about was treated the same way. Someone pushing an agenda crafted a narrative and used either directly controlled connections or sympathetic fellow travelers to propagate it throughout the culture. The average people don't know any better because they don't realize the utter corruption of every supposedly reliable institution.
Think about the people around you now that believe anything on CNN. Now imagine around 100 years ago when most people didn't travel more than 50 miles from where they were born, only had one newspaper in town and only that one rich guy owned a radio. How easy it would be to spread an agenda.
It took me a long time to learn this, but it cannot be overstated:
There are two sides to every story. Not every side is going to be plausible or legitimate, but people generally don't do evil things without some form of justification in their own minds.
I despite people who cannot see the humanity in their enemies. How can you learn from a situation if you just assume your enemies are evil and unthinking sadists?
A lot of our enemies are evil and unthinking sadists.
I think evil requires intention.
People who do evil things but are incapable of understanding the gravity of their actions are seen as less than evil. It's why you need to be competent to stand trial for heinous crimes.
There are vanishingly few people in the world who are intentionally evil. Most people aren't good, either, just... respond to stimuli and act on the moralistic story in their head. It doesn't mean good people don't do evil things, it just means most people don't see them as evil while they're doing them.