January 6th and Cowardice

After becoming a consultant and working from home I can proudly state that I only watched daytime television three times: Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing, The USA World Cup semi-final game and the insurrection on January 6th. Like so many other patriotic Americans, I was appalled at the actions of riotous traitors. Let’s not forget the cowards Josh Hawley and Markwayne Mullin who ran or hid from the “patriot’s” insurrection.  

It’s really hard to believe they haven’t paid any kind of political cost for their cowardice and hypocrisy, but also not that hard to believe. People have short memories and there are active attempts to whitewash history. People deal with the busyness of day to day worries and issues;  they don’t have time to be outraged over everything. And in the big scheme of things, many don’t feel a lot of these actions will affect them. 

John F. Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage is very slim for a reason. In today’s political climate there really is a lack of courage and willingness to act on principles and values no matter the cost. I understand that it is hard to be courageous, but just believe that we can expect more from our leaders.