Episode 66: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind Redux; The Anniversary of the Riot at the United States Capitol (Special Edition)

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On January 6, 2021 a riot broke out in Washington D.C. at the United States Capitol. It was an angering sight to see and brought the functioning of the Capitol to a total standstill. The national media and the Democratic Party have tried very hard to put the blame on one man, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. But I think I speak for millions of Americans when I say bluntly, there is plenty of blame to go around. While Donald Trump certainly has done little to alleviate the divisions in this country, the sad fact is our nation has had nearly two and a half decades of incompetent, divisive, extreme, unworthy leadership from both parties , and, frankly,  I could just go on and on using these types of descriptions of our national leadership. The incompetence  extends to the national media and its leadership too. They are a collective national embarrassment unfit to walk the same halls as Bob Dole or Dan Inouye, or sit in the same chairs as Peter Jennings or Walter Cronkite. Until January 6th, our nation had functioned with relative immunity from just how bad they have mishandled the positions they have been entrusted with, but finally the chickens have come home to roost. 

If I sound disgusted understand I am actually being generous on how I really feel about the current state of our national discourse. 

When we wrote our book "Always Vote Your Conscience, Don't Take it personally and Don't fight the Same old battles over and over again" or when we started this podcast, we were frustrated, today we are just plain mad and sick of it. Our Podcast premiered on January 2, 2021 and it was originally a nine episode podcast documentary focusing on lessons of leadership we could learn from the World War 2 generation of leaders, both those of the generation that led us through the war, and those who fought it and returned to serve in Congress and the Presidency afterwards. The events that occurred at the Capitol erupted just 4 days after we went on the air and because of how strongly we felt we put together a new ending of the series to include a frank assessment of our current leadership and a review of the events of January 6. 

This was our first production of this type and we basically took the material from the finale, centered on the resignation of Senate Leader Bob Dole and his powerful speech on the Senate Floor in 1996, and divided the show in half,  adding material looking at two decades of colossal failure and extreme politics, combined  with an overview of the day the Capitol was ransacked. This added two full shows to our series finale.

 To commemorate the first anniversary of this horrible, embarrassing, an angering moment in the history of our country, we have revamped the material from the close of our first series. We have added a new opening, removed all the Bob Dole material, and added some new narration and removed some too.  The show is still our longest, at 2 hours and ten minutes, but it is , in our opinion, a powerful indictment of just how bad our national leadership has been for a quarter century. We are  now at a  moment of truth when we, the great silent majority of Americans, the non shouters, the non protesters', must step up and take our country back. 

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

We need to elect leaders capable of leading, of finding compromise, and finding real solutions for making Government work again, instead of leading BullS#$& revolutions and extremist public policy. 

It is time to leave what we have had behind b

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