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Arnold Schwarzenegger calls Trump ‘worst president’ ever, ‘failed leader’ after Capitol riot | ABC7
as an immigrant to this country i would
like to say a few words to my fellow
americans
and to our friends around the world
about the events of recent days
now i grew up in austria i’m very aware
of crystal nacht
or the night of broken class it was a
night of rampage against the jews
carried out in 1938
at the nazi equivalent of the proud boys
wednesday was the day of broken glass
right here in the united states
the broken glass was in the windows of
the united states capital
but the mob did not just shatter the
windows of the capitol
they shattered the ideals we took for
granted
they did not just break down the doors
of the building that housed
american democracy they trampled the
very principles
on which our country was founded
i grew up in the ruins of a country that
suffered the laws of its democracy
i was born in 1947 two years after
the second world war growing up
i was surrounded by broken man drinking
away their guilt
with their participation in the most
evil regime in history
not all of them were rabid and their
semites and nazis
many just went along step by step
down the road they were the people next
door
now i have never shared this so publicly
because
it is a painful memory but my father
would come home
drunk once or twice a week and he would
scream and hit us
and scare my mother i didn’t hold him
totally responsible because our neighbor
was doing the same thing to his family
and so was the next neighbor over i
heard it with my own ears and saw it
with my own eyes
they were in physical pain from the
shrapnel in their bodies
and in emotional pain from what they saw
what did it all started with lies
and lies and lies and intolerance
so being from europe i’ve seen firsthand
how things can
spin out of control i know there is a
fear in this country and all over the
world
that something like this could happen
right here now i do not believe it is
but i do believe that we must be aware
of the dire consequences
of selfishness and cynicism
president trump sought to overturn the
results of an election
and of a fair election he saw the coup
by misleading people with lies
my father and our neighbors were misled
also with lies
and i know where such lies lead
president trump is a failed leader he
will go down in history as the worst
president
ever the good thing is that he soon will
be
as irrelevant as an old tweet
but what are we to make of those elected
officials who have enabled his lies
and his treachery i will remind them of
what teddy roosevelt said
patriotism means to stand by the country
it does not mean to stand by the
president
john f kennedy wrote a book called
profiles
encourage a number of members of my own
party because of their own
spinelessness would never see their
names in such a book
i guarantee you they’re complicit with
those who carry the flag of
self-righteous
insurrection into the capital
but it did not work our democracy held
firm
within hours the senate and the house of
representatives were doing the people’s
business
and certifying the election of
president-elect biden
what a great display of democracy
now i grew up catholic i went to church
to catholic school i learned the bible
and my catechism
and all this and from those days i
remember a phrase
that is relevant today a sermon’s heart
it means serving something larger than
yourself see what we need right now from
our elected representatives is
a public servant’s heart we need
public servants to serve something
larger than their own power
or their own party we need public
servants who will serve
higher ideals the ideals in which this
country was founded
the ideals that other countries look up
to
now with the past few days friends from
all over the world have been calling and
calling and calling me
calling me distraught and worried about
us
as a nation one woman was in tears about
america
wonderful tears of idealism about what
america should be
those tears should remind us of what
america means
to the world now i’ve told everyone who
is called
that as heartbreaking as all this is
america will come back from this dark
days
and shine our lights once again
now you see this sword this is the conan
sword
now here’s the thing about swords the
more you tamper a sword the stronger it
becomes
the more you pound it with the hammer
and then heat it in the fire
and then thrust it into the cold water
and then pound it again
and plunge it into the fire into the
water the more often you do that
the stronger it becomes i’m not telling
you all this because i wanted to become
an expert sword maker but
our democracy is like the steel of this
sword the more it is tampered
the stronger it becomes
our democracy has been tempered by wars
injustices and insurrections
i believe as shaken as we are by the
events of recent days
we will come out stronger because we now
understand what can be lost
we need reforms of course so that this
never ever happens again
we need to hold accountable the people
that brought us to this
unforgivable point and we need to look
past
ourselves our parties in disagreements
and put our democracy
first and we need to heal
together from the drama of what has just
happened
we need to heal not as republicans as
democrats
but as americans now to begin this
process
no matter what your political
affiliation is
i ask you to join me in saying to
president-elect
biden president-elect biden we wish you
great success as our president
if you succeed our nation succeeds
we support it with all our hearts as you
seek to bring us together
and to those who think they can overturn
the united states constitution know this
you will never win president-elect biden
we stand with you today
tomorrow and forever in defense of our
democracy
from those who would threaten it
may god bless all of you and may god
bless
america
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