No Going Backward

 The last few weeks have been terrible. I have seen one of the horrible things I unfortunately predicted 4 years ago. I saw an uprising but instead of it being socialist liberals attacking the Capitol, it was right wing conservatives. Meanwhile, the United States sits at over 400,000 deaths due to the coronavirus because an inept President didn’t think it was serious enough to actually inconvenience his followers. Instead he lied, denied science, and elevated conspiracies even more after his first impeachment. 

The attack against the Capitol was expected. Everyone on social media saw it coming and people warned the right people it was coming and some did not act on the warning. 

So what comes out of this? Not much. Trump has been impeached again. But republicans will all fall back in line with the party and it will again be a split vote. He will finally be found guilty though. There is too much data to support it. Trump organization will file for bankruptcy again... and they will come out the other end smaller, but still alive because of the connections to people like the pillow dude or the Goya bean guy. 

If he had the chance, he would do it all again. He created policies specifically designed to help his businesses. It will take decades to remove all of the helpful little policies his administration made for his own family. 

Once you have gone this far down a path, you can’t go back. For example, today I checked on an old friend from Clinton on Facebook. She has followed right in line with the conspiracy followers and believe that private platforms such as Facebook and Twitter should be part of the first amendment freedom of speech. She doesn’t realize that the freedom of speech is about the government restricting your rights, not a software company. She writes about God and Jesus a lot and even though I think she is a smart person, I feel she limits her information by choice. 

I think most of Clinton limits what they hear. I think they have lived in their own little bubble without seeing the rest of the world and how good and bad work together to create something new, different, and concerned with the future. Whether that is climate change, social systems like police, fire, education, and health, or even how we communicate... they look at what the past brought and how to explain and connect it through conspiracies. 

I can’t go back. Even growing up there and still having a friend or two, I can’t look to people submerged in the past, to help me personally move forward. So where next?

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