The 1/6 Committee hearing today: American fascism is a matter of faith

Fascist Republican rhetoric and politics in the weeks before the 1/6 are clear and undeniable. The fascists based on faith their belief that the 2020 election was stolen. Contrary facts and sound reason were denied or deemed non-existent or irrelevant. 

That's like the Bill Nye the Science Guy faux debate with Tom Ham, the young Earth "theory" crackpot discussed here yesterday. Faith says the Earth in young, but facts and reason contradict it.

One cannot debate faith, but there is no choice but to try. People with faith believe regardless of supporting, ambiguous or contrary facts, truths and/or sound reasoning. That's more or less the definition of faith. 

Liars are a different beast. They are at least impervious to contrary facts, truths and/or sound reasoning as faith-based believers.

The testimony today makes it undeniable that the fascist Republican assertion that the 2020 election was stolen is either a lie or a matter of faith. Either way, it is not a matter of fact, truth or reason. That's how fascist, pro-T**** Republican faith has to work. There is no other way. 

Waddabout Ciopplone and the Republicans who argued against the fascist tyrant?

What about them? If the GOP had been in control of the House after the 2020 elections, there would have been no 1/6 Committee. Their knowledge would have been buried. What would they have done? Mostly nothing. It is probably only the cognitive dissonance the 1/6 Committee created that forced them to reluctantly testify. What else could they have done on their own, write a book of little or no significance, or just keep quiet and watch democracy and truth stand, wobble or fall?

The Republicans who fell on their own swords and resigned in protest are real patriots. 

Of course a good counterpoint is that with the Republicans who stayed and opposed T****'s fascism, we and democracy were better off with them staying there and opposing the tyrant than leaving quietly or in a blast of public criticism. Maybe non-fascist Republicans staying and opposing from with in is the best one can hope for with current American democracy. If so, democracy hangs on damn weak threads. Those folks are being RINO hunted. They will probably be extinct fairly soon in most positions of significant state or federal power. Those threads are being broken.