If You Did not Watch All Three Hours of the Darkest Day in American History as it Happened: Shut Up

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Editing is a clever word for censorship. Therefore, if you did not watch all three hours of the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, as it happened, you do not know the truth about what was undeniably the “darkest day in American history.” Recently, I wrote about changes, and how even the slightest deviation from choosing the right path can become a choice which leads to destruction and even devastation. This is equally true for countries. My wife and I, both retired, were watching television on a Wednesday morning, January 6, 2021, when whatever was on the television screen disappeared and the words, “BREAKING NEWS,” appeared. Trump walked up to a makeshift stage and began to speak to the crowd gathered in front of it. He rambled on and on, , as always, but the core of his message was, “I won the 2020 election, and you must end the proceedings happening in the Capitol Building.” The old man had just executed an attempted coup. In the latter days of 2020, he began...