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To attack democracy is precisely the goal of this protest, though. The democratic election is complete, the results didn’t go their way, and in the midst of the

To attack democracy is precisely the goal of this protest, though. The democratic election is complete, the results didn’t go their way, and in the midst of the final certification of results, these people broke into the Capitol to disrupt the process. That seems like an attack on democracy to me. If not that, what was their goal?

OJFord 6y ago
Well to be fair, isn't it their apparent belief that the results did go their way, but <.. something conspiratorial..>? So they presumably at least notionally feel that the attack on democracy has already happened, and they are... I don't know, defending it?
- phalangion 6y ago
  Perhaps, but to what end? So they breached the Capitol and disrupted Congress. Then what?
- kordlessagain 6y ago
  They believe what they believe and they also hold the idea that if that belief is threatened by facts, there must ALWAYS be an alternate narrative that allows them to continue to believe what they believe. This is because Trump himself is strong in this means of building an internal fantasy reality and then presenting it to others (irrationally) which then either causes them to believe it or come to understand his ego is the issue here. If you listen to him, he's constantly negating what he just said, which comes across as open to interpretation (or completely insane). No one man or woman is above the law. Factual information is arrived at by consensus of people. That a certain group of people in this country refuse to accept or participate in the consensus mechanism (or threaten or dismiss that mechanism) then those people are against whatever it is that forms the consensus, such as the constitution, the US Govt., etc. This is how dictatorships are born and it would do these people well to understand that replacing their made up fears with a dictator is not going to help anyone.

OJFord 6y ago

Well to be fair, isn't it their apparent belief that the results did go their way, but <.. something conspiratorial..>? So they presumably at least notionally feel that the attack on democracy has already happened, and they are... I don't know, defending it?

phalangion 6y ago
Perhaps, but to what end? So they breached the Capitol and disrupted Congress. Then what?
kordlessagain 6y ago
They believe what they believe and they also hold the idea that if that belief is threatened by facts, there must ALWAYS be an alternate narrative that allows them to continue to believe what they believe. This is because Trump himself is strong in this means of building an internal fantasy reality and then presenting it to others (irrationally) which then either causes them to believe it or come to understand his ego is the issue here. If you listen to him, he's constantly negating what he just said, which comes across as open to interpretation (or completely insane). No one man or woman is above the law. Factual information is arrived at by consensus of people. That a certain group of people in this country refuse to accept or participate in the consensus mechanism (or threaten or dismiss that mechanism) then those people are against whatever it is that forms the consensus, such as the constitution, the US Govt., etc. This is how dictatorships are born and it would do these people well to understand that replacing their made up fears with a dictator is not going to help anyone.