It's presenting on numerous levels now, blanketing the nation.
Early July, 2021. I just heard that last month 10,000 more Americans died of covid-19. Bizarrely, people all around the nation are behaving as if the pandemic is in the review mirror. Two years ago, if some horrible mishap had occurred and 10,000 U.S. citizens had perished from that cause, it would be deemed as one of the worst disasters in our history.
Last year, because of previous Russian interference in our federal election of 2016, and because the President of the United States began spouting that the upcoming election would be rigged (as he had also said in 2016), and so many of us were going to vote via mail-in ballots due to the pandemic, election officials everywhere were super vigilant about processing the election.
But ever since election night itself, the ousted president has claimed that there were election abnormalities everywhere, when in actuality they were nowhere. Officials in Georgia recorded him asking them to "find" him more votes. Then stunningly, knowing full well what he was doing, he egged on thousands of people to commit an unprecedented siege of our U.S. Capitol building. He tried for a coup! I can't describe adequately the level of anger and horror I felt that day. And eight months post election day he still refuses to stop spreading his lies. Most alarmingly, the majority of citizens who are registered with his party are actually believing his made up scenario.
It is as if beginning in 2016, a compounding outbreak of ignorance and hate has spread through much of our country. This is way beyond disagreements of philosophy and/or politics. This is "We hate the other side and we'll do anything no matter how absurd or unthinkable to get the upper hand." This is "We played relatively nice to you know-it-all bleeding hearts for the past 50 years, but now we're going to roll back the clock". Maybe roll it all the way back to pre-United States of America days, if their dear leader could have his way.
I'm totally astounded by the black hearts and empty brains of so many of my fellow citizens. I have a deep sense of dread about all of this. Since we are the most heavily armed citizenry on Earth, I truly think that some form of civil war is not out of the question. I may be an old broad, but I would fight to the death in order for our democracy to survive.
