Political Violence

The lies.

The anger.

The vitriol.

The accusations.

The threats.

The intimidation.

The repugnant conspiracy theories.

What has this country come to?

The January 6th rioters chanted Speaker Pelosi’s name. They announced their desire to seek her out and do her harm. They invaded her office while her staff hid in closets.

Sadly, today, someone of like mind, a man who was radicalized by sinister messages that he absorbed from multiple sources and by the conspiracies that he heard and repeated online, attacked Speaker Pelosi’s eighty-two year old husband in his home in the darkness of the early morning hours.

What has this country come to?

Armed extremists show up at school board meetings.

Armed extremists walked into the Michigan state capitol while legislators were in session.

Activists, some of them armed, are watching and filming voters as they drop ballots off at official locations.

A third of all election workers have resigned in the last two years. The threats and intimidation that they faced was more than they could tolerate.

WHAT has this country come to, and more importantly, where is it going?

The United States has entered an unprecedented era of political violence. If it is not reversed immediately, if this trend is not denounced by ALL members of ALL political parties and ALL political pundits, regardless of their views, our democracy will crumble.