It is interesting to think about where the past has led us. It is also easy to think of that past as a straight line to today as if the present is an inevitability. This is, of course, simply not true. Every moment of the past was once a present with its own possibilities and choices and potential outcomes. I have been thinking about this lately as I look for something to make this all feel better.
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This applies to us politically with regards to the “When is he gonna Watergate himself out of office” line of thought. Trump just keeps doing and saying such awful things. If decorum were a requirement for the job, he might never have been sworn in. But it isn’t. And we certainly have never seen anything like this president before.
Maybe Meuller will find the silver bullet that can put an end to this insanity. I certainly hope so but I am not biding my time hoping that some deus ex machina can save us from our current politicial fortunes. I just don’t know and I don’t expect anything short of massive electoral turnout and a sweeping change of the representation in Washington to do anything positive.
But this is where we stand today. Maybe we have to walk through this so that future observers can point to our time as the prerequisite for something that will in the future be the past, if you follow me. Maybe, just maybe, this insanity will end up making sense. Even if it just makes sense in retrospect.
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