According to Mediaite, “Historian and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said that the present day is one of the worst times in American history. … ‘It’s really serious. There are three great crises before this: the Civil War, the Depression, and World War II. This is equal to it,’ he said on Monday’s episode when asked about the direction the United States was headed. The documentarian went on to quote comments made by Abraham Lincoln during a January 1838 speech to a group in Springfield, Illinois: ‘From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.’”
Being the absolute foremost expert on American history and storytelling, if Ken Burns speaks, then you should f***ing listen. Sadly, he says nothing I have not already said, if not a bit more understated through the Lincoln quote above. Namely, America is dying by our own devices. There is barely a post where I am not calling out the imminent death of America’s democracy, and I’ve been saying it for a couple of years now — and believed for years longer. It has always been evident to me. Clear as the ringing of a new bronze bell. (An alarm bell, if you will.) From the moment traitor trump won, there was no other conclusion to draw except how stupid can America be? How can a person like that run in plain sight for more than a year to be president and win? How could America look at the incomprehensible stupidity, mendacity, and vileness that is traitor trump and still vote for him? There is only one way. It’s the mirror, stupid. It’s the f***ing mirror. America looked into the traitor trump mirror and fell in love with its own image. I knew then that such a country could not survive, and America will not. Traitor trump is the disease and the symptoms. He is the cancer we openly invited into the country, and Americans will lose their democracy because of it, and people will be perfectly fine with it. When traitor trump gets reelected, it will be four years of pure vengeance across the world, especially here at home. And people will welcome it with open arms because Americans are too stupid to understand otherwise. MAGA morons, QAnon, RepubliKKKlans, and evil evangelicals are destroying America, and they will eventually murder the nation in part because weak, weak dumbass Democrats will let them. Welcome to trump stupid America. The countdown is well underway to the next Civil War. Mark my words, morons! I give up! No one cares!