As a life long history buff, I'll always shocked at how little historial understanding people have. Once upon a time, I would have limited that to "how much historical understanding Americans have." But my travels have changed my perspective a bit. In what I've seen, the older the culture, the more history is recognized as a material influence, and the longer the social memory seems to be. Of course, in large terms, the US is still the teenager on this historial block. And like a lot of teenagers transitioning from adolescence to adulthood, there comes a moment where we start to understand that we are not always right, that we are not the toughest thing ever created, that we are not actually immortal, and that time is a tough teacher who doles out her lessons with the most gloriously brutal smackdown, otherwise known as "karma, bitch!". It's how we respond to those lessons, those challenges, those clear indications that we've grown too big for our britches that is our REAL statement to history and the world. And, when all is said and done, the heartbreak about our country electing that miserable piece of shit is that it says, unequivocally, to history and the world: we were too drunk on American Exceptionalism and too willfully ignorant of our own (much less everyone else's) history to recognize the impending signs of our own demise. We had the choice to course correct, learn from our lessons and adapt. Instead, we chose to double-down on hubris, willful ignorance, and toxic ego as if THAT had EVER been part of the "greatness" of the American dream. No one ever breaks your own heart as much as you do yourself. The Trump toxicity proves that. #ripusa #trumpsterfire #toxicmasculinity #hypocites #history (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zFxDGgUkq/?igshid=tvhfch57hwhh