1. The failed insurrection is important outside America, not least to the Europeans who felt abandoned by America over the joint defence arrangements NATO represents.
2. Like much of the world beyond America I am appalled at the possibility of another four years of Trumpism.
3. My view that he repudiated the spirit of international cooperation in defence of democratic values is widely shared here in the UK.
4. I am dismayed by the apparently slavish admiration for Trump in 'certain quarters'.
5. We Europeans can only be spectators as America tears itself to shreds through the intransigent attitudes displayed in American party politics, but there is an opportunity here to engage with the contending viewpoints.
6. I am curious to see how the civil unrest - the events of January 6th 2020 - develop.
7. My opinion as I watched the events at the Capitol that there was a strong suggestion of planning and organisation of the insurrection has been strengthened by subsequent events and by a tv programme shown on BBC in which the evidence of organised paramilitary groups moving through the crowds was clear.
There are other reasons I won't delineate now; that is enough to be getting on with, I think.
Nevertheless, this is not the only topic I participate in. I have expressed views on capital punishment, on other current events and moral issues. I was keenly interested in and took part in the George Floyd case and other threads in which the actions of police were looked at. So my interest in the Oath Keepers is hardly exclusive.
Why did you ask, durangodawood?
