On January 6th, 2021, about 15,00 of Donald Trump supporters gathered in Washington, DC. The events of that day are still being chronicled and examined. The event in its entirety has been called an “insurrection”. It was certainly not individuals who came to the Capitol to peaceably petition Congress. But one must consider what drove so many people in a nation that prides itself on freedom and democracy to stage an insurrection, or whatever it was. We do know we all got a preview in the film, Network. 15,000 were effectively screaming out their smart phone window yelling, “We’re mad as Hell, and we are not going to take it anymore!”. A series of articles have been written and more are planned. They review the multiple root causes of the insurrection are and goes back many years. The topics highlighted are not always examined to show the wide spread of causes. An intention of the series is to show the multiple and often interconnected events that brought on the events of January 6th, 2021.
3 - In Memory of Insurrection by Brad Sandler January 27, 2021 POLITICAL HISTORY With the Seventies on the horizon there was little hope and even less optimism. But…
