re Jan 6, Never Forget

Houston TX

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100 years ago, James Monroe was our president. Interestingly, he was the last of the founding fathers to be president. No average person today knows that, or really anything else about President Monroe, for that matter. We are too close. We lived through it. There is too damn much passion on both sides no matter if you are an avid supporter, or a determined hater. It is truly untenable, a no-win situation. If he is the first president to be charged with a felony, but not convicted, the base will believe it confirmation that he has been unfairly attacked and harassed. If convicted, no matter how profound the evidence, they will make him a martyr. The only way to truly understand the madness we are enduring today, would be if we were somehow able to go forward 100 years, perhaps in a time capsule. There, without the extreme passions and divisiveness of today, it would be most interesting to see how historians and future legal scholars define this era. I was an adult in 1973 and remember the global shock and dismay of not only a United States president being charged with felonies, but his resignation in disgrace. I remember when the president who succeeded him due to the 25th Amendment then pardoned him, preventing congress (or any arm of the criminal justice system) to pursue justice as it surely would have been meted to you or me. It is sad indeed to have it happen twice in one lifetime.