What we have here is...

...another rebellion.

America has a long history of engaged in and surviving many rebellions.

Perhaps, America’s first of many rebellions to come was “mad” King George’s ultimatum in 1763. The Monarch, his Parliament and his Empire administrators demanded colonial settlers on land west of the Appalachian Mountains get out and go home.

The “Proclamation of 1763” didn’t settle well with settlers. Many rebelled.

Perhaps, the second rebellion occurred when colonists rebelled against King George’s, Stamp Act in 1765. The Monarch, Parliament, Empire administrators and colonial Governors demanded colonists buy a “stamp” for anything they bought which included or contained “paper.” King George forced colonists to help him pay for the Empire’s war with the French and their Native American Indian allies.

The “Stamp Act of 1765” upset more colonists, settlers, immigrants. Many rebelled.

Perhaps, the next rebellion was fired-up by colonists when King George dictated, they must provide his soldiers with free housing, free food and free clothes.

The “Quartering Act of 1765” was, may we say, “maddening”? More colonists rebelled.

Next in line were rebellions against King George’s “Townshend Act of 1767”, “Boston Massacre of 1770”, “Tea Act of 1773”, “Boston Tea Party of 1773”, and the “Intolerable Acts of 1774”. I leave it to you to Google those rebellions.

Finally, American colonists were fed-up. They began making secret plans to take up arms against the Empire (is this starting to sound like Star Wars?). British army generals were tipped-off by local ‘Tories’, and a plot was discovered. Military leaders organized 700 soldiers and launched a sneak attack to capture guns and gunpowder from the colonists at Concord, a small village outside Boston.

At the “Battles at Lexington and Concord of April 19, 1775”, King George learned the colonists were fired-up and ready to fight. Years of rebellions had evolved into war.

There were even more rebellions after our Revolutionary War: “Shay’s Rebellion of 1786”; “Whiskey Rebellion of 1791”; and “Slaveowner’s Rebellion of 1861” (aka ‘civil’ war).

The 1861 slaveowner’s rebellion was a rebellion too far. After the Union won the war, Senators passed on June 8, 1868, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment, which included Section Three, Disqualification Clause.

QUOTE: “No person [emphasis added] shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office [emphasis added] civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States [emphasis added] or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion [emphasis added] against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

In official federal government documents created during the slaveowner’s rebellion and war, President Abraham Lincoln, Congress and General ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant called the war “War of Rebellion,” and “War Against Rebellion.”

The War of Rebellion’s historical name remained so until the late 1800s and early 1900s. Somehow, unreconstructed Southerners, former slaveowners, and Ku Klux Klan members managed to reassert their power in the former Slave South. They began hiding the official name of the war. Eventually, they were allowed to replace the war’s name with the words ‘civil war’. The new name stuck. Today, historians who should know better capitalize the word ‘civil’ to authenticate and empower it.

Few if any, Americans use the historical name of that war today. Only recently have some come to understand it was our nation’s war against slavery, against Southern slaveowners.

Now, we are witnessing another rebellion gone too far. This one is a rebellion of the indicted former 45th president, a rebellion of MAGA republican supporters, enablers and voters.

Like mad King George who organized and launched the 1775 sneak attack on Concord colonists, our mad 45th president and his mob planned, organized and executed the January 6, 2021, sneak attack on our U.S. Capitol. The damn fool disqualified himself.