When your political party becomes seditious

    

     Watching yesterday's January 6 hearing it was hard to not wonder what it would take for some of the "normal" people to start publically shouting about the movement to try and overthrow the government.  There is a time to break ranks and publically take the risk of losing your job to alert the country.

       It is not like we haven't seen politicians accept defeat when they might have had a case to question an election loss.  Richard Nixon in 1960 had grounds to contest the voting results in Chicago that caused him to lose Illinois and the election.   Al Gore could have not accepted that the Supreme Court on a 5-4 ruling stop the counting of votes in Florida that might have made him the winner of the 2000 election that he had more than 500,000 more votes than Bush.  Hillary Clinton could have felt robbed of an election where she won the popular vote by 5 million votes after losing 3 states by less than 80,000 votes.  She didn't start calling the election officials in those 3 states asking for them to "find the necessary votes" to overturn the election.  So it shows how dangerous the Republican Party has become when 147 Republican congresspersons voted against certifying an election that Biden won by 7 million votes and after Trump had sent a mob to the Capitol that day to "hang the Vice President."   The Confederate officials of the 1860s were no different than the Republican Party of the 2020s.