Insurrection: A reckoning is essential for the real & powerful villains

Overlooking the true villains just creates new political violence

Thom Hartmann
6 min readJan 11, 2021
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While everybody is discussing how the FBI is trying to hold to account those who invaded the US Capitol building and several state capitols on January 6, very few national media outlets are supporting or even discussing the idea of holding the true perpetrators to serious account.

The media narrative today is that “right wing crazies“ are the only people involved in this attempt to disrupt Congress and even kidnap or murder some of our elected representatives. But they’re missing, almost entirely, the big question: Why did so many people show up?

Imagine it’s November, 2024 and election-tally reports from Secretaries of State around the country indicate that Senator Tom Cotton has beaten Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

While CNN and Fox News are congratulating Tom Cotton for becoming the new president-elect, MSNBC reports that there were, in fact, massive election irregularities in six swing states, which strongly suggest Kamala Harris actually won the election. They include intricate details of exactly how the irregularities and frauds were perpetrated, including multiple witnesses and video.

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Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann

Written by Thom Hartmann

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