The road to recovery

Charlie Kirk is now being lionized by the right wing and his death even handled with kid gloves by the mainstream media. His widow says the "movement will not die" referring to the caustic gospel that Kirk was spreading throughout college campuses. 

This is what happens when a society descends into hatred and division. It looks for the wrong people to blame for their own suffering. 

The fascism playbook historically never ends well and at the end of the process the US will be a shadow of its former self. It will need to rebuild itself into a nation where common sense and decency mostly prevail again but not after some blunt looking into the mirror takes place. 

Mass shootings and violence aren't the only problem but they represent symptoms of an underlying rot. People are angry that they losing ground economically having been led here by people who would blame the most marginalized groups as culprits. The ruling oligarchy stuffs their coffers while telling people to look elsewhere for the source of their suffering. 

Cultural witch hunts are always a diversion from an underlying truth. 

Many people aren't stupid and recognize what is happening to their nation but they are powerless to stop it. With a corrupt supreme court and congress bending the knee to a cult personality, not much can be easily be done. That the leader is an idiot only worsens the problem.

However, the thing about a descent into a spiral is that there is always a bottom which once reached will activate a process of recovery. A process which I fear will take decades.