The Remedy
A year ago today, we all watched as a group of misguided Americans violently attacked Congress to stop the peaceful transition of power. At the time, I compared it to an abscess blowing open. Twelve months on, all our "doctors," have done is slap a bandage on it and send us on our way, leaving the infection to fester. Out of exhaustion or frustration, too many Americans held their breath until the Inauguration and then stopped paying attention to the news or the actions of government officials. Now, as we begin 2022, this country is septic. A large chunk of the American electorate is worried about the accuracy of the final tally in future elections. For some people, those concerns were the product of a propaganda campaign, and coup plot carried out by the executive branch of our government and their coconspirators in the media. For others, their concerns only developed after some state legislatures began to use the lies at the center of the propaganda and coup plot as an excu...