How We Got Trump Was Largely Just Bad Luck
At this point it’s unclear how successful Trump will be in leading this country further into the putrid miasma of racism, violence, cruelty, environmental ruin, executive lawlessness, and all the rest. What’s completely certain is that, as long as there is an organized civilization on Earth, historians will be studying this whole phenomenon with great interest.
As suggested in the meme above, most young people, though certainly not all, recognize Trump for what he is, and detest him accordingly. Most educated people of my generation feel the same way.
I speculate that Trump arrived at the only time in history in which he wouldn’t have been laughed off the public stage: after the day where intelligence and honesty were valued, but before all these hopeful, energetic and committed young people arrived on the scene. In many ways, it was just a bad break. How bad? We’re about to find out.
With what little time left, brother, let’s not lose sleep speculating on commencing that other drum-roll of any dark ages’ return. It’s a bleak prospect, I understand, but history hardly ever repeats itself without consequences attending in inflection terms. Against other forms of governance, a viable democracy’s superiority is that the society can suddenly catch herself sleeping and sliding, and set up anew with reinvigored course corrections. Essentially, America needs to again wake her genius to lead humanity out of this climate terror. CC is wreaking real global havoc in the face of jestings by egotists fronting for hidden interests and rolling back crucial solutions.