Her and Biden’s words were wonderful, very healing.
I’d forgotten how religious everything tends to be, though.
Even when they don't explucitly pray, everything in DC has a religious feel to it. The national mall and the capitol complex feels more like a temple than a government. Last time I took a tour if the capitol with my sister she was kinda freaked out by the way it feels like there is a government religion. There is no government religion, of course, but they certainly decorate as if there is.
There is very definitely a kind of reverence, in the eyes of some, that surrounds the institutions of US democracy, and that very definitely extends to the facilities that house them.
For what it's worth, it's not outside the realm of possibility that the sudden switch of so many senior Republican legislators to being willing to openly condemn Trump over the riots a couple of weeks ago is because they were offended by the attack to a level that goes beyond just their lives being physically threatened or the president
just provoking some random riot. If the US democracy is analogous to a "religion", an attack on the Capitol while Congress was in session, and especially in session doing
that job of all things, would be analogous to something like blasphemy or desecration. In fact I think I've even heard some of the Congresscritters use the word "desecration" in the wake of the riot.
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