If you call the Capitol incident "domestic terrorism," a "coup attempt," "sedition," "treason," or any other sensationalist nonsense, you're part of the divide that made it possible. It was many things, but a foolish, pointless, disorganized emotional outburst fueled by propaganda is not terrorism or a coup. The uproar over this incident following the 2020 summer of unrest is absurd, and claims of blanket "right-wing violence" as a societal threat is downright myopic.
Go easy on these radical Republicans. Rioting is new to the right wing. They're rookies. They have no idea what they are doing.
Meanwhile, we have much bigger problems to address. Government power concentration has been driving the zero-sum game of politics like a wedge into society for a very long time. The Trumpster fire is just the latest manifestation of this chaotic State intervention in society. Sool we will have Sniffy Joe and Kamala the Cop ramming theirnideas down our throats instead. That is not progress. A swinging pendulum does not indicate progress, and switching control from the "right" to the "left" is no better than the reverse.
We are now seeing the corporate social media giants going on another spree of censorship, and when Ron Paul is lumped in with the likes of Ttump, any dispassionate outside observer should start to question whether it is really about protecting the user base from violence, or dissent.
At least we have Hive, though. A censorship-resistant blockchain is far superior to a corporate behemoth.
Nice message, but I fear that the people who need it most will never see it. They certainly don't want to be confronted with the reality that they don't have the moral high ground. What we are seeing is a dying political establishment lashing out with its death rattle (in some cases, quite literally) and its would-be subjects finally fighting back. When conversations end, battles begin, and the conversation ended long ago. QAnon now has the attention of the three-letter agencies, and "stop the steal" has been officially branded as a terrorist slogan. How much of the population will end up being persecuted under this diktat is anyone's guess, but it won't be a small portion. When the fossils currently in charge die off and the pendulum swings back the other way (speaking of which, I hate that analogy, and I would equate the political process with a rubber band instead), the US will probably return to its state in the 1950s, persecuting the left instead, for the first time in over half a century. Either way, nuance has already been defenestrated, and people in the middle will get burned then as now. Things will get worse before they get better, and I think I'd rather move back to Russia than try to wait this out.
Domestic terrorism, a coup attempt, sedition, treason I don't like because these are harmful.
Terrorism and coups are use of politically-motivated violence and an attempt to seize political power, so both are indeed harmful. Sedition and treason are not inherently harmful, because they are in opposition to political power.