When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

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[sovay]

I have asked my congressional delegation whether there is grounds for prosecuting those involved for sedition - and the President for inciting sedition.

I hope the answer is yes. I hope there will be a government to do it. We can't be having with Reconstruction 2.0.

[choco_frosh]

Exactly.

[sporky_rat]

As someone who lives in a state that did Reconstruction badly, no we do not.