I benefitted from a set of Britannica Encyclopedias when I was learning American History at St. Mike’s and Linsly because those volumes expanded on the information included in the textbooks we read at the time.
I learned much more about the Cold War, Vietnam, the Middle East, Henry Ford, Johnny Unitas, Niel Armstrong, and the actors on M#A#S#H thanks to the folks from the encyclopedia company, and hopefully people these days are using legitimate web sites when conducting similar research.
Makes me wonder how historians will view this recent General Election cycle – and the reaction to the results – 10 or 20 or 50 years from now.
Will President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office be portrayed as the country’s greatest political comeback or as a national tragedy?
What about President Joe Biden? Is his once bright-and-shiny legacy as a federal lawmaker and public servant now tarnished forever, or will he be justifiably pardoned as a normal human simply suffering cognitive decline?
How will the story sound concerning Vice President Kamala Harris, her presidential campaign, and the finger-pointing that’s taken place all week since the 270th Electoral College vote was awarded to Trump?
What will future historians do with Oprah and the paid-for extremism she revealed when telling people attending a rally in Philadelphia on November 4th, “If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.” … Wow.
How will W.Va. Del. Shawn Fluharty’s convincing victory over a huge Trump supporter in District 5 be described after he was the only Democrat to win a legislative seat in the entire Northern Panhandle?
Will 1-percenters Mark Cuban, the liberal, and Elon Musk, the conservative, ever speak again after the billionaires battled back and forth on X (formerly known as Twitter) during the last few months of election season?
What will the future think about the national entertainment news networks of today once they realize the bias deployed by the likes of Fox News and CNN?
As the saying goes, “time will tell,” and that’s because we’ll need to see how it all plays out after one of the nastiest election cycles in modern history. Some say social media made it worse, but all those platforms only communicate what we make them.
Nope, that part is on us, and we know that now.
