January 6th- A Huge Mistake

 January 6, 2024- Saturday 

This is my first post of 2024, and I am not going to push a lot of New Year’s resolutions verbiage like most people do at the beginning of a new year. Today is an anniversary of such. It is January 6th, the day when a strong number of people assembled at the nation’s Capital and eventually stormed the building.  

Ashli Babbitt was involved in the demonstration and died while people attempted to breech the Capital. Her death should have never happened. That is the greatest sadness of this day for me.  

Many people like to call this an insurrection. Many people traveled from across the country to participate in the demonstration that became much more than many thought it would. We are frequently told the Capital is the people’s Capital. Well, this bunch took it literally. They were all upset because Donald Trump had lost the presidential election, and they wanted their voiced heard.  

Now, I venture into my opinion. I never felt this was an insurrection. It was a demonstration that became violent and should never have happened. These people knew they would never take control of the United States government. The activities got totally out-of-hand, and this is where I fault Donald Trump. He acted much too slowly. This from a man who usually jumped at every opportunity to make his voice heard.  

On January 6th he was silent for much too long. Why? His arrogance and animosity because he failed and lost the election, caused him to not act to squash the demonstration. There are many who are going to really pound on the history of this day and emphasize their opinion it was an attempted insurrection. That is their opinion. I think this is a day that should be remember how strong the United States as a country is and a day, we should not forget how a sitting President failed to act when he should have and when he did act, it was tepid when compared to the situation that was occurring.