We must have a commission on the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.   The truth must come out and be displayed for our democracy to survive.

We had an assault on our government, with the expressed intent to stop our elected officials in the execution of their duty to certify a free and fair election.  The intent was to keep a man in power with truly autocratic tendencies.   His party, the party of Trump, with only Republican outward trappings, not surprisingly, does not want to get at the truth of how this happened.  They do not want their lies and potential criminality exposed.

We need two viable parties.  Our democracy depends on two or more competing platforms and multiple ideas.  The Republican Party cannot opt out of the process.  But if they continue to sell the lie that the election was stolen from Trump;  and if they continue to sell the lie that there was no threat to our democracy on January 6th, then they are disqualifying themselves from the democratic process.

I’ve heard many say, they all lie.  Nope. Not like this.  These lies are fundamentally un-American and un-democratic.  This is an attempt to acquire and maintain power, not on the strength of ideas and character, but on the strength and use of force, backed by lies, and by creating rules that make it difficult for those they do not care for to vote.

I’m still a Republican, but I’m embarrassed by what I continue to see happen to the party of Lincoln.

Power for the sake of power and wealth and no other purpose is not honorable, and not what we should expect of leaders.