Frankly, I don\u2019t know what to write. I\u2019m stunned! January 6, 2021, will go down in infamy as the day that America lost the high ground and with it the last of its innocence. I vacillate between anger and embarrassment. What do I say; what can I say? The Trump incited storming of the Capitol was unfathomable.<\/p>\n
All of this has become too personal for me. The things I believed in have been violated. The comfort of predictability has been taken away by a mob mentality that seeks to destroy our traditions, our civility, our decency, and our long held belief in constitutional and democratic government. I have been struggling to make sense of what\u2019s been happening.<\/p>\n
I feel as if I\u2019ve been violated. It hurts. I have many friends and some family members who voted for Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. Most have long been close friends, good people whom I\u2019ve respected and loved. It pains me that they did not see that Trump was a flawed person unsuitable to be our president. Contempt for the Democrats is no excuse to elect such a man period.<\/p>\n
During these past four years, I have continually reached out to these people seeking answers and with one notable exception have been rebuffed. I have yet to hear the others say to me that they were sorry for their vote, or at least, say that they had not signed up for such disgraceful and dangerous behavior by the president. During this time they have remained silent or, at best, offered a feint in the direction that all was not right in the White House. Most were smug and defiant.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m ashamed for all of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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