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In reply to the discussion: Twas a time when people wondered how an advanced nation like Germany allowed Hitler to become ruler [View all]msfiddlestix
(7,289 posts)if these past five years, isn't evidence to a significant and commonly shared American myth of our own political culture, pray tell what would be? The events of January 6th laid bare to all in a matter of several hours, a stark, gruesome reality check on this fact.
For me, January 6th shall for the rest of my life be seared into my consciousness the carnage brought by a population of cult followers, enablers and worshipers of a deranged psychopath.
I'm struggling how to teach my young granddaughters, the oldest in middle school, the youngest only 10 years old about these events and what it means. I'm struggling because I'm still quite wary and less optimistic that we'll manage to recover from this for years to come. What pray tell, shall we teach our children?