Just a few notes on this comment: -No, we don't "have a military to safeguard against" this kind of attack—that's not what the military is supposed to be for,

Just a few notes on this comment: -No, we don't "have a military to safeguard against" this kind of attack—that's not what the military is supposed to be for, and of course in fact, as we know in great detail, the military was entirely useless on that day and people died because of that -You don't think that storming the Capitol and successfully stopping the counting of electoral votes in an intentional effort to overturn an election is a threat to democracy? Well, you're just wrong. It was a very direct threat to one of the most important rituals of our democracy. -How precisely did BLM "change your life drastically"? What free speech crackdown? -You're "allowed" to talk about whatever you want. But part of free speech is being held responsible for your speech and having to deal with others' reactions to your speech. If you can't handle that, or think that's unfair, you don't truly understand what "free speech" actually means. -The attack on democracy embodied by Jan. 6th did not just last "one day"; no. It is ongoing to this very day.