TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED

With a new White House beset by critical challenges, for now my attention is more riveted on the January 6, 2021 Capitol  attack and desecration.  With more FBI details emerging about the planning and execution of the insurrection, how deep the roots might reach, and how audacious the Trumpian strategy to possibly impose martial law, the words “shocking,” “unprecedented,” and “complicity” aren’t enough.

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The realization that things could have been so much worse doesn’t mean that next time they won’t be worse. I’m not thinking of another attack on the Capitol.  For now I’m hopeful of a period of positivity and peace. But there are far more things that can go wrong that we don’t know about, than things we do know. History has never moved so fast, attention spans been so short, memories so inundated and selective.  Instead of divining  the next decade by  what you might feel and want, or what you think is just and right, study history.  Read about the cycles of governments, dynasties, and political parties. Nothing lasts forever, but your dreams will last longer if you don’t let your guard down.   When the future arrives, you want to be able to recognize it.