The End?

 The End?

Monday, November 11, 2024

It occurred to me this morning that no empire lasts forever and no democracy lasts forever. The mightiest empires the world has ever known fell. No democracy lasted as long as American democracy did. Sure, it was far from perfect; but it was more or less democratic, and it lasted a long time. Now, perhaps, it has come to its inevitable end. The American people rejected it last Tuesday when they gave the federal government to the fascists much like the German people gave their government to the Nazis in 1932-33. I suppose American democracy is something to mourn, but its demise was inevitable. People always turn their back on the good, then regret it later. Last Tuesday, the American people turned their back on the good. They—we—face at least four years of our federal government doing very bad things. Nothing good can come from another Trump administration. That it couldn’t was obvious last Tuesday, and the American electorate selected it anyway. They put opponents of democracy in charge of the country’s government. So be it. It isn’t good, but it was probably unavoidable in the long run. So we live with it. The people suffer under it.. The people Trump hates especially suffer under it. There’s not a damned thing I can do about it. So my life goes on for at least a little while longer. I never thought I’d live in a fascist country, but now I do. So be it.