Only a Fraction...

Only a fraction of those 74,000,000 Americans who voted for Donald J. Trump on Election Day chose to accept his invitation and travel to the Capitol Mall last Monday.

And only a fraction of that fraction of a million or so chose to storm the Capitol Building that day.  And all but a small fraction of those who did meandered aimlessly through the building, between the velvet ropes, taking selfies of each other in Statuary Hall.  

And only a fraction of that fraction, of that fraction, chose to actually break windows and barge through doors and steal lecterns and sit at San Fran Nan Pelosi's desk.*  A dozen or so folks.  Only a tiny fraction.  And because of them, not only is Trump being blamed for this could-have-been, thankfully-averted disaster, but so are every one of the 74,000,000 people who voted for him.  

And they're not only pissed their guy lost, they also think the Election was stolen from them.  Which makes them doubly-pissed.  And now they're being blamed for what a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of like-minded folks did a thousand miles away and without their approval.  

And now, as if we needed any more sturm und drang in our lives, the five or six social media oligarchs in Silicon Valley who we now know actually run things here in Amerika, have chosen to pile on while Trump (and his followers) is down by de-platforming him from Twitter and Instagram (same oligarch owner), and also Google and Apple.  And just yesterday Parler, the only competitor to Twitter, where millions and millions of Trump followers had vacated to when he was banished, was taken off-line by Apple and Google and Amazon as well.  Which serves to remove his only way of communicating with his voters/followers.  Which pisses them off even more! 

And now we're learning that San Fran Nan is planning to drop another round of impeachment on The Donald come Monday.  I've been telling you Loyal Readers for years that they won't be happy until they've tarred and feathered him and run him out of town on a rail.  How dare a mere businessman come to town and try and steal their thunder?  How dare a mere filthy Orange Peasant dare to ascend to their Throne?  And how dare those toothless, pickup-driving, flag-waving, beer-swilling, bible-thumping, National Anthem-standing redneck rubes vote for The Donald?  We'll track them all down and kill them, they say!  Or at least give them a good doxxxxxing! 

Remember, we were told all summer that those engaged in "mostly peaceful protests," the several hundred of them, which went on day after day after day, during which businesses and churches and homes were burned and looted with abandon, were all nice, young folks just taking part in their Constitutional right to protest?  

Did I mention folks are getting pissed?

I mean, pretty soon those po' folks in the Great Flyover gonna' run out of piss!  And on my way out the digital door, consider this: These are the same folks who own and know how to use most of the 429.5 million guns the FBI told us we collectively owned at the end of 2019.  To which they say we added another 23 million or so for 2020.  Is it really a good idea to bigly piss off the possibly tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of all those millions and millions of folks who just might feel backed into a corner?  Provoked into an act of violence?  

There's an old rule by which I live, and I believe by which others should as well:  

"Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't mean you SHOULD do a thing!"  

And to apply this motto to today's situation, just because the Democrats now have their hands on all the levers of power in Government, the House, the Senate and the POTUS-hood, that doesn't mean they should run rough-shod over the now new minority.  

The backlash could be beyond unimaginable...

*  You've got to admit.  Now that was funny!