![]() But when this is denied, it is no wonder that the events at the Capitol are read as shocking and un-American. White terror is as American as the Stars and Stripes. Today is no different.Īmericans remember and accept the enfranchising of citizens and peaceful transfers of power as their history, while forgetting and denying the coup plots, the attempted coups, and the successful coups. ![]() America is the best democracy around, said the American people when it was harder for Black and Native and Latino people to vote in the 2020 election.Īt every point in the history of American tyranny, the honest recorders heard the sounds of denial. America is the utmost democracy on the face of the Earth, said the primarily older and better-off and able-bodied people who are the likeliest to vote in the 21st century. America is the leading democracy in the world, said the non-incarcerated people who have voted throughout U.S. America is the beacon of democracy in world history, said the men who voted before the 1920s. America is the greatest democracy on Earth, said the property owners voting in the early 19th century. America is establishing the freest democracy in the world, said the white people who secured their freedom during the 1770s and ’80s. In the aftermath of catastrophes, when have Americans commonly admitted who we are? The heartbeat of America is denial. And to say that this is not part of America, American politics, and American history is a bald-faced denial. Capitol is not who we are is to say that this is not part of us, not part of our politics, not part of our history. “This is a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation,” Democratic former President Jimmy Carter said.ĭo these statements represent the American dream? Is the American dream the great delusion about what America is and who Americans are?Ĭlint Smith: The whole story in a single photo “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic-not our democratic republic,” Republican former President George W. “This is not who we are,” Representative Nancy Mace said. “I know this is not our America,” Representative Ed Case said. “This is not the America I know and love,” Representative Brenda Lawrence said. “That’s not who we are,” Senator Ben Sasse said. “And while we disagree on things-and disagree strongly at times-we do not encourage what happened today. We disagree on a lot of things, and we have a lot of spirited debate … But we talk it out, and we honor each other-even in our disagreement,” said Senator James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma. Capitol is entirely un-American,” read a statement from a bipartisan and bicameral group of elected officials that included Senators Joe Manchin, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, and Mark Warner as well as Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Tom Reed.
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