A Day That Will Live in Infamy

I am amending my previous comments which some may have considered too inflammatory.

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Today is a sad day for my country - to see today's events at the Capitol was disheartening. Many wise heads here may disagree on matters of policy and politics but what happened today only emphasizes how fragile our institutions are.

At the completion of the 1787 Constitutional Convention someone asked Benjamin Franklin “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” to which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

[bkb in the city]

It was a huge shock

[katy]

A brilliant way to illustrate the fracturing going on in our country.

[Susie]

Thinking of all my good American friends on a sad sad day.

[carol white]

Very sad scenes at your Capitol building.

[Kathy A]

A very sad state of affairs indeed.