Kintsugi treats breakage as part of the history of the piece, not as something to hide. There are many ways in which American democracy has been dropped and shattered in recent years. The normalization of lies about our election process, the refusal of unsuccessful candidates to concede, threats of violence against election officials, and actual violence, attacks on elected officials and their families, deaths and rallies and in the Capitol, riot and two assassination attempts. Our situation is not on the level of the devastation memorialized by the Kaiser Wilhelm Church. But neither is it trivial. (02:54–03:15)
CLAIM
Asserts that there have been lies about the election process, refusal to concede, and violence against officials.
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