Brown Motion

 So will be written some prose after we are long gone.  History will judge what has been.  Of the almost 245 years of America's democracy there have been many a war and uprising.  Much blood spilled and ideologies threatened. Yesterday was a mere formality or so we thought.  Acknowledging American voters' right to choose their next leader.  A counting of electoral votes seen as a tradition long upheld as traditions go with the VP presiding and announcing the next President to take oath Jan 20th. Instead it went from an orderly event to shoot out.  In the capital's Capitol where this putative event was to finish without much drama there was a riot.  Trump supporters stormed the barricade of the Washington police and entered the building.  Smashing hardware and trampling all the artifacts that America holds dear as representations of its democracy. Then there was some shooting.  One died.  Senators and Representatives took cover....