Sometimes the truth doesn’t matter. And well, this is sometimes. Yesterday marked five years since the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. To be clear, it was an insurrection against the United States. It was done by Trump supporters to stop the electoral votes from being counted that showed Joe Biden rightfully beat Donald Trump. The people in the capitol definitely committed crimes. Trump at a minimum didn’t defuse the situation, and no this was not a conspiracy between Nancy Pelosi and the FBI.

Not one bit of that matters.

Everyone in America fits into one of three groups on the issue of January 6th. The either believe the truth, they’re a conspiracy theorist and denier, or they don’t give a shit. In truth, a lot of people are some combination of one of the first two and the third. Like sure, Capitol Police broke down that day and I’m sure there were some federal agents among the rioters, but in the end it was still an insurrection by people intent on stopping the count. And the majority of people either deny it or don’t care. They either don’t want to be bothered by it or don’t care at all.

There are still people, particularly Democrats and never Trumpers, who mark this day like Christmas every year. I get that it was a really bad event. It’s an event fading from consciousness though. With Trump having pardoned everyone involved, and what will be the passage of eight years by the time he’s gone, it’s over. It’s dead. They all got away with it. The public isn’t mad about it. The issue went nowhere.

We live in a country where a lot of truths aren’t realized until way long after the fact. In 100 years, I bet history majors will call it utterly insane that we let a bunch of half-wits, hillbillies, imbeciles, and Neo-confederates attack our Capitol. That day of judgement will have to wait.