Our democracy is under assault, says Biden as mobs vandalize capital

President-Elect Joe Biden called on the soon-to-be-former president, Donald Trump to rein in the mobs he called leading an assault on the country’s legislative chamber.

Joe Biden, who will take office as the 46th US President on January 20 further urged the riotous mob to leave the capital and go home. But to the thousands of people that has besieged the capital, he could be talking to himself.

In a conciliatory message, Biden appealed to the decency of Americans saying that “America is about honour, decency, and respect for one another, this is not who we are,”

“Let me be very clear: the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not represent who we are. What we are seeing is a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent, it’s disorder. It borders on sedition, and it must end. Now,” Biden said.

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In reality, though, honour is not only a prized asset in this America. In 2000. Al Gore conceded an election that was close in 2000, and that was clearly marked by some irregularities in the interest of the nation. Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to his country’s democracy over an election he lost by wide margins.

This America is drifting towards implosion, Its politics have become too corrosive, too divisive and too opportunistic to be cuddled by an admonishment to decency.

There was a time when the two parties, the Democrats and Republicans, were divided over policies, size of government, taxation, and other policy matters but now they can’t even disagree on anything like adults.

The country’s news media heightens this division with popular television networks telling their supporters what they want to hear. It was Trump’s election, however, that brought out the worst in Americans, elevating fringe groups promoting racism.

Minutes after Biden’s counsel, the country’s media played a hurriedly taped message where Donald Trump urged his supporters to go home even as he repeated the claim that the election was stolen from them.

But there is no indication that they were going to leave.