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Beau says:
Healing and unity in the U.S. require removing those who enabled authoritarianism, prioritizing country over careers.
Politically engaged citizens
The full transcript provides a detailed analysis of how healing and unity in the United States depend on holding accountable those who enabled authoritarianism, even if it means stepping down from their positions.
Well howdy there internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we're going to talk about healing and unity in the United States.
It is a hot topic among those in power right now.
But as is typically the case, I feel like they may be coming from a different place
than us common folk down here on the bottom.
Because they seem to be under the impression that we can't have healing,
we can't re-establish unity if we, you know, seek to engage in impeachment or prosecution.
It's because they have different ideas about what we mean when we say healing.
They're talking about their political careers.
There are a whole lot of senators who think that when we say that,
we're talking about healing their career, or healing the Republican Party,
or healing the two-party power structure.
Those of us on the bottom, we don't care about that. That's not what we mean.
We're talking about healing the country.
Part of the problem is that a whole bunch of ambitious people
put their party or their own personal career over the country.
The United States was stabbed in the back by the dagger of authoritarianism.
Those who enabled authoritarianism to rise,
well, they're kind of part of that.
The United States can't heal until that dagger is removed.
It doesn't have to be through impeachment.
It doesn't have to be through prosecution.
Those people who are saying that they really care about healing and unity,
they could resign and for once put the country above their own political aspirations,
over their own ambition, because that's what caused this.
A whole bunch of people fell in line behind Trump
because they thought it would be politically advantageous,
and it was for a short time.
They thought it might help them.
All they had to do was settle for the crumbs from Trump's table for a little bit,
and then they'd be the one in charge.
That's normally not how it works, just so you know.
Those who want to heal the country, those who want to reassert unity,
who also played a hand in wielding that dagger, they need to resign.
That's the only way we're going to get to where we want to go.
The United States can come back from this.
It's going to take a long time.
Once those who enabled that dagger to be firmly planted in the back of the United States
are no longer in public office, then we can start to move back.
But while they're still there, we can't.
We can't because we do not know when one of them is going to make the attempt
to undermine the very foundations of this country again.
So if you are one of those who is currently being held accountable for your actions
for the first time in your life, I would strongly suggest you really take a look
at what you think is important and match your rhetoric to it.
Because if you only care about your political career, this rhetoric about unity and healing,
we see right through it.
Because if you cared about that, you wouldn't be giving speeches except for your resignation.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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