It's hard to fully comprehend what happened during the last two weeks. There was an assault on the Capital of the United States to prevent the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes. One line that stood out to me from your reaction piece: "Despite the silver lining, yesterday was the first time in history that that transition of power was not peaceful." If we need 25,000 National Guard and additional police to successfully transfer power, I'm not sure if that fits the definition of a "peaceful" transfer of power. That's what I've been thinking about during the last two weeks.
Hopefully, Trump getting banned from Twitter helps reduce the violent rhetoric out there.
Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump and some allies
I am worried we are headed to a dark time. Not sure I know what the solution is. More local control may help. I mean county and city control, not state. Though there are some issues though that will always be federal. Local control has major issues too as certain groups would be discriminated against without federal and/or state civil rights laws. I do think more local control would put cause hyper negative polarization to back track.
Hi Elliott,
It's hard to fully comprehend what happened during the last two weeks. There was an assault on the Capital of the United States to prevent the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes. One line that stood out to me from your reaction piece: "Despite the silver lining, yesterday was the first time in history that that transition of power was not peaceful." If we need 25,000 National Guard and additional police to successfully transfer power, I'm not sure if that fits the definition of a "peaceful" transfer of power. That's what I've been thinking about during the last two weeks.
Hopefully, Trump getting banned from Twitter helps reduce the violent rhetoric out there.
Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump and some allies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinformation-trump-twitter/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main
Hopefully things will be safe in DC.
-Elliot
This coming Monday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated in DC...
No, Wednesday the 20th
I am worried we are headed to a dark time. Not sure I know what the solution is. More local control may help. I mean county and city control, not state. Though there are some issues though that will always be federal. Local control has major issues too as certain groups would be discriminated against without federal and/or state civil rights laws. I do think more local control would put cause hyper negative polarization to back track.