The New Day of Infamy
January 6, 2021 was a nightmarish day. It was as if it was taken from the playbook of some far-off backwater banana republic where hordes of demonstrators were storming its capitol. However, this was happening in the Capitol Building of the United States!
The feelings of helplessness, shock, and dismay filled my being as I saw videos and still photographs of these disturbing events. It was completely surreal!
The ramifications of this insurrection will have devastating consequences on the perceptions of the United States as leader of the free world. This will have the effect as if a huge asteroid crashed into the Pacific Ocean! Alliances will be shaken. Stability will be the victim!
The COVID-19 pandemic had ushered in an era of uncertainty, death, and suffering. The IDEOLOGICAL-21 upheaval, as I call it, will create an atmosphere of distrust, political and societal instability, adversarial opportunism, and lessening reliability as it relates to the United States. Economic uncertainty will increase as America will be seen more as a land of disruption.
These are perilous times that have a chilling effect on the hallowed institutions of freedom and democracy in the United States as well as the "free world."