It Won’t Matter
January 6th actually should matter. The incursion into the United States Capitol was wrong, bad for democracy, and has inspired a fringe set of conspiracists who deny anything bad happened and who made the villains the good guys.
But, a majority of Americans do not actually directly blame Donald Trump for it. Later this week, Congress is going to try to convince the American public not only that they should blame Donald Trump, but they should hold it against the Republicans in November.
The January 6th committee has gone so far as to work with the former president of ABC News to sculpt the hearing for maximum impact on television. It will be theater designed to capture the attention of the public.
Those who stormed the Capitol should be held accountable. But the public has bigger things to worry about.
The press and Democrats want the public to care about January 6th, abortion, and gun control. The public itself cares about ever increasing gas prices, inflation, grocery bills, declining income, and a rudderless President who seems too incompetent to care or correct. Just wait for the public backlash when the President bails his own staff out of their student loans and saddles the working class with the bill.
It’s hard to get Americans to care about the last President and his supporters when they weren’t starving, short of baby formula, and broke while that guy was in office.
The effort to make Americans care about January 6, 2021, runs head first into the reality of Summer 2022 when every day Americans are encountering ever higher prices. Now, with the economy slowing down and Joe Biden focused more on climate and telling Americans they just aren’t paying attention to how awesome the economy is, we should not except Americans to be anything other that frustrated with the press and Democrat attention on an event more than a year ago at the expense of the present.
The press and Democrats want the public to multitask and care about a plethora of things. The public wants the press and Democrats to do the same.
I know people for whom January 6th matters most. They are in the minority, mostly within 100 miles of Washington, and mostly in the press or pundit class.
Here in Middle Georgia, people are pissed off every day going to fill up their cars and buy groceries. Washington, DC is not a swing state. Georgia is.
A well orchestrated TV spectacle with the press in high dudgeon trying to make the American public care is probably the best way to ensure the public does not care. Then, the public and Republicans will be the villains for not caring and the public will vote for the GOP in November. We will all move on except the most entrenched voices of the punditocracy and press who will forever remember January 6th as the very worst thing. The public will move on.
Frankly, a nation that moves on from mass school shootings of elementary school students is not a nation that is going to linger on January 6th. The public is tired, hungry, and angry and it remains about the economy, stupid.
There are so many questions about J6 that will never be answered. Right off, I want to be clear that I did not support the stupidity of the event. However, I know people that went and their sole purpose was to march and show their support for Trump. Entering the capitol was never part of their plans and they did not enter. They had no grand ideas of turning over an election. The confusing parts are: why did guards hold the doors open for these "insurgents". Was silly photo ops wearing horns and clown make-up part of the plan to take over the government. While Ray Epps has apparently been cleared of wrong doing He is on multiple films strongly encouraging people to enter the capitol even though he never did. To me it smells like the Whitmer kidnapping hoax using informants. With all of the shenanigans the FBI has been involved in lately it is hard for me to not think that they had some role in setting up and orchestrating the debacle. The entire thing smells. There is a lot more to this than what the press is releasing.
Yep. Paying 'zero' attention to this. They lost me when they were perfectly fine with our cities being torn apart; but were outraged about this. Truth - should have been outraged about both. This isn't about finding the truth. This about attempting to brand one party as 'evil'. And it will not work.
My youngest son, who makes pretty good money for his age, as does his wife, also elected to have a family young. They still have one of three in diapers. He looked at me the other day and told me that his 2015 Ford F-150 cost $89.10 to fill up. That's what he notices.
Boy's two best friends and God Father's to his children are African American. Another friend is gay. He tries very hard to see other's points of view. With that said, what he cares about right now is cost of living. It is, by far, at the top of the list of his concerns.
Biden's crew has no shot at getting his vote. My oldest is a libertarian. Biden's crew has no shot at getting his vote. Or their suburban wives.