Commemoration of the 3rd year since the incident of January 6; A sign of the fading of American democracy

The three-year anniversary of the attack on the United States Congress on January 6, 2021 has arrived while the two opponents in the presidential election, which is the Democratic President, Joe Biden, and the main candidate of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, attacked each other with particularly strong words in this period entering the presidential election year in the United States.

Jan 6, 2024 - 15:53
Commemoration of the 3rd year since the incident of January 6; A sign of the fading of American democracy
Commemoration of the 3rd year since the incident of January 6; A sign of the fading of American democracy

The incident on January 6 has become the core of the conflict between the two. Joe Biden has warned about the possibility of the complete disappearance of American democracy if Trump is re-elected as the country's president. Biden has accused Donald Trump and his supporters of creating "political chaos" and said that the former US president is ready to sacrifice democracy in order to return to power. Trump has responded to Joe Biden's verbal attacks by calling the US President a "fraud" and accusing him of being incompetent, corrupt, weak and a failure. "Biden's record of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure has not yet been broken", emphasized Donald Trump speaking in the state of Iowa last Friday. Biden and Donald Trump The attack against the US Congress building on January 6, 2021 was carried out by a group of supporters of Donald Trump. The attack disrupted a congressional hearing to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump, who lost the November 2020 presidential election to his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, had a key role in the January 6 event. by inciting his followers and supporters to protest the results of the election by claiming that there has been vote theft. Trump, as the president responsible for protecting the country's political system, called the system corrupt and fundamentally questioned the American voting and election system. And by emphasizing the issue of major fraud in the election, in practice, Trump organized a revolution with the aim of disrupting the legal process of announcing the presidency of Joe Biden by inciting his supporters and encouraging them to riot and attack the buildings of Congress.

During the attack, 5 people were killed, and the Congress fell into chaos. However, the attackers failed to achieve their goal of capturing the results of the presidential election or taking hostage any high-ranking American politician. The United States Intelligence Department (FBI) and other law enforcement agencies described the incident on January 6 as an act of domestic terrorism. Trump was also called and questioned by the Democrats for his inflammatory statements he made before the attack on the Congress building. However, he survived an impeachment attempt after the Senate intervened. Despite this, the United States Ministry of Justice has earnestly followed up and prosecuted the perpetrators of the incident. So far, more than a thousand people have been charged in this case. United States Congress The event of the Congress on January 6 was an indicator of the beginning of the post-American era and the forgetting of the American style and values, especially in the field of democracy. At the same time, the event in Congress is a sign of something undeniable in the United States, that is, the growing gap between conservatives and Democrats at the elite level and the split between two camps in American society. To this day, there are still differences of opinion between Democrats and Republicans regarding the causes of the incident and the party that caused the crime. On the other hand, the attack on Congress on January 6, 2020 has prompted analysts to warn of the real danger of civil war in the United States, something that was unthinkable a few years ago. Barbara Walter, an American political science professor, has openly admitted that the idea of ​​the existence of a democratic system in its true sense in her country is a misconception, and has warned that the United States is moving at an alarming rate to the lack of peace, internal war and revolution.