How will history see us?
Issue #380 OpEd August 7, 2023
Adolph Hitler oversaw the mass extinction of more than 6 million Jews during World War II in his perverse attempt to transform Germany into the most powerful nation of a New White Aryan Earth where non-white folk would exist only as logs for the fire of white supremacy.
But when it was actually happening, it would have been nearly impossible for anyone to accurately gauge the true depth and threat of evil that Hitler’s regime posed to the entire world, or how the immensity of that threat would be viewed in historical retrospect. Because some historical events are so massively large that they cannot be measured at ground level, which is the level you’re on when you happen to be standing on your porch in the middle of the tornado.
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So as we try and absorb all the surreal events taking place around us, such as the (so far) triple indictments of a former United States President, an obscenely wealthy, obscenely corrupt, rapist manchild who tried to overthrow the government of the people he had been elected to serve because he refused to accept what every single president before him had accepted, namely the peaceful transfer of power after losing a campaign for re-election, we cannot truly comprehend the full scope of the tornado that storms around us.
All we know for sure is that some really wild shit is going on because we have nothing to compare it to. There is nothing to compare it to.
Some years from now, as the smoke begins to clear - maybe five, maybe ten - many of us will wonder how the hell did we make it through all of that? And decades from now, what we’re living through will likely be one of the most studied periods in American history, as well as one of the most outsized cautionary tales of how truly difficult it is to maintain a democracy.
But then, that’s only if we manage to maintain it.
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