E.M. Cadwaladr – I have been struggling at this keyboard since the “election.” I start an article — and the news cycle runs it over like a steamroller. I don’t think anyone wants to hear anything very subtle or, if you’ll forgive an elitist word, very “nuanced” right now. I don’t think anyone needs convincing, either. We are past all that. Neither do I want to contribute to the raging storm of half-truths and conjectures. I try furiously to make sense of what’s going on, but the smothering blanket of censorship has already begun to take its toll.
The “mainstream” media were playing around recently with likening the “invasion” of the Capitol building to 9/11. Actually, I am reminded very much of 9/11 — not by the “invasion” itself, but by the tenor of the reaction since. Continue reading