Jan 6 unintended consequences, or not?

 

Jan 6 question – if the coup had succeeded what were their plans?  They would have seriously damaged the constitutional order.  Were they going to write a new Constitution – these jamokes, these political adolescents?  Such action often leads to unexpected calamity, and sometimes deadly consequences.  There was a high risk of a anti-democratic outcome.  So is this the sort of country you want to risk emerging?

1- Unequal justice – different laws for some, usually party in power and friends. Party preferences determine how you are treated, even in the courts

2- Elections Interference “even violating the secrecy of elections in order to identify citizens who oppose those in power”

3- Press freedom curtailed – “forbidden to publish newspapers which do not conduce to the national welfare”, or outright censorship

4- Faking gov’t economic data or distorting reports to the public

5- Suspension of individual liberties to “protect” the threatened State

6- Freedom of religion impaired for those who do not conform   “liberty for all religious denominations that don’t offend the morality and moral sense” of America

7- Suspension of the rights of unions and union members in deference to industrial supporters of the State

These have all happened before, tragically.  A successful coup could dismantle a 240 year old success story.