President Biden today â and I shall borrow a phrase â was âpreaching to the choirâ when my wife and I tuned in to listen to his speech commemorating the year since 1/6.
We believe what he said about the cause of the riot on Capitol Hill; we endorse the notion that his presidential predecessor is more interested in âpower than in principleâ; we shudder at the belief that we witnessed a year ago the first direct assault on our democracy by those loyal to the individual who lost a free and fair election.
My question as I watched the president and Vice President Harris speak to us this morning was this:Â How in name of all that is sacred in our democracy do these officials reach those who need to understand the truth of what they are saying?
Those would be the cultists who continue to believe The Big Lie that the former POTUS keeps alive, that the 2020 election was stolen.
I simply want to highlight briefly something to which Biden alluded during his remarks given in Statuary Hall ⌠that Republicans actually performed well down the ballot in November 2020 and that no one has challenged the results of those returns. Oh, no. Biden reminded us that the only challenge has come from the former president and his cultists regarding the race at the very top of the ballot. How come?
Oh, itâs because the former president lost that one and that his âbruised egoâ wonât let him accept that he lost the most secure, most examined election in our nationâs history.
President Biden need not convince those of us who live in this North Texas home. He needs somehow to reach those who continue to believe The Big Lie.
I wish the president all the very best as he embarks on that effort.