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I Believe This is the Last Gasp
Maybe I am too much an optimist — but I think what we are seeing is the last gasp of a dying animal — and though painful, it’s a good thing.
I am a student of history. While American history has tended to hold the least interest for me, I am not ignorant of it.
World history is part of how I can see all the signs and portents that many see. This country, this culture in its current incarnation, might well be heading for a fall akin to Rome.
Matters were bad enough when it was just Trump and his cronies destroying the environment and various other institutions (like the Department of Education) for their so-called power and financial gain. Then a pandemic swept the country. Instead of acknowledging it and taking the necessary precautions to slow it down — they denied its true danger and pushed for economic gain. Today, we have almost 4.4 million infected and 150,000 dead. Both numbers are still rising.
Those in power to do something about this administration won’t for the same aforementioned power and financial gain. It feels as if this unreasonable, illogical step backward could become permanent.
I know where that fear comes from. We seemed to be making all this amazing progress — and in four years it’s been massively undercut. But I believe this is not where we are going — this is the…
