January 6, 2021 America was not so beautiful and it’s getting uglier by the day. We watched armed and dangerous men storm our Nation’s capital as some politicians cheered them on and gave them the thumbs up. We watched barricades open to allow easy access to anarchists and domestic terrorists as they made a mockery of our democracy.

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I kept asking myself:

Why are reporters using euphemisms for rioters and sugar-coating felonious acts of violence?

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