and democratic struggle, there s no permanent victories, no permanent defeats. i think it s important for people to understand that in this context, because the works got to continue. i mean this idea that people have to be engaged, at the ground level you know, in a state of quasi-permanent emergency, is a hard thing to hear. but i think the truth. it s absolutely true. , i feel like the black community understands this in a very visceral. way the idea that we have this democracy, that has always been so free and fair and, it has been snatched away, just in the past number of years, is obviously not the truth. it s not a historical truth. it s not the truth of the viscerally have lived. our grand so, that constant vigilance is necessary. if you zoom back, i think it s really important i wrote about this today, in a medium post. i think it s so important to
the ideals that generations of americans have marched, picketed, and shed blood to establish and defend. one year later, the fight for democracy is far from over. i ll speak with a member of congress who lives the horror of the sixth, and warning about what is yet to come, next. screen
there s a fight on how to signify with this day today, will mean in our country s collective memory. earlier today, president joe biden offered his vision of january 6th, as something of a historic inflection point. so now, let s step up, where the next chapter in american history. we re january 6th marks at the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play. i did not seek this weight brought to this capitol one year ago today, but i will not shrink from it either. i will stand in this breach, i will defend this nation. i will allow no one to place dagger at the throat of democracy. now, a probably goes without saying, i believe that biden s position is a correct one. when you re ago, it appeared as the republicans appeared. republican leadership in both the house in the senate condemned the violence, even as
remember, the core logic of january 6th, and of the big lie, is a racial one. it is the lie of the racial zero-sum. president biden alluded to this in his speech today. this idea that there s only so much democracy to go around, that we are in this battle for supremacy. and so, if people of color vote, that must be stealing something that is rightfully that s the core logic. about the insurrectionists, and what is their core ideology. and what drove them. it was an economic insecurity, one in four were business owners. it was this idea of the great replacement. the idea that the people of color will gain more rights, and that will come at the expense of white people. that idea is being sold, packaged marketed. the same people who fun to stop and steal movement, and our funding ongoing attacks, on our democracy are the ones who win, financially, when republicans
i think it s going to end up being a politicized, charlie foxtrot today. i don t expect anything good to come out of anything pelosi in the gang are doing. i don t expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. i think it s going to be nauseating, quite frankly. nauseating. fox news played would about with one anchor publicly speculating only pay tribute to the police officers who lost their lives and, not actually babbitt, the insurrectionist was killed by law enforcement, as she tried to force her way into a door, leading to the lobby of the house of the chamber. one went, the other went, and now it s done. when you later, january 6th, should recognize the police officers only, not the fifth person who was also killed that day. will move on. yeah, let s move. on republican pause was recently an assault on our democracy, and backed creating a bipartisan committee to