Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, answered the question today that I asked my wife Barbara this week as we were reflecting upon the guilty verdict of seditious conspiracy against Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the head of the Oath Keepers, who led the violent insurrection against the nation’s Capitol building and American democracy on January 6, 2021.
I asked Barbara: “It is so infuriating that these people tried to steal our democracy! Why?” Nichols put it this way: “I found it incredible that we had to interrupt our lives for a movement built on lies and political hallucinations.”
The amount of human energy, media time, and treasure that has engulfed America since the 2020 presidential election is incalculable all because Donald Trump never learned in Kindergarten how to play in the sandbox or how to lose a ball game that I learned in Little League Baseball and on the playground of my elementary school. That so many millions of Americans also seemed never to have learned how to lose fair and square, how to accept reality, and how to appreciate American democracy, utterly confounds me.
Tom Nichols’ piece in The Atlantic is worth reading. The essence of it is this: “It was a rebellion born in affluence and boredom and a desperate search for meaning in otherwise ordinary lives.” The article is short and to the point. I recommend that you google it and read it.
Thanks Tom.
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We’ve had similar attacks on our democracy in Canada too. They called themselves the freedom convoy. Their idea of freedom meant they could replace the government of Canada as they please. It didn’t bother them to fill a section of Ottawa and honk the truck horns non-stop in a neighborhood where people lived. On the southern border of Alberta the truckers blocked the border to the US. That group were found to have a multitude of weapons and over 40,000 rounds of ammunition.
If this is due to boredom I don’t want to see them attack the Parliament buildings for fun. Rabbi I am finding it most interesting as the west drags itself out of a pandemic some oddly strange people are haunting us like zombies.