Nah, nothing will be learned.

From the inside, just the way people continue to drive despite the daily gnarly wrecks I drive past, nothing will change no matter how fucked it is here.

The Republicans will continue to blame everyone but themselves, and Democrats will continue to whine how nobody plays fair and it’d be better if they were in charge even though whenever they are they just shrug and say “its just so complicated when you’re in charge, nothing we can do.”

Trump will steal the midterms if he even lets them proceed. Martial law will be called over something so blatantly transparently bullshit that the rest of the world will wonder why we aren’t doing a France/Spain right now.

And maybe we will, but our country is so geographically huge that sending in the military as “peacekeepers” may as well be an actual foreign occupation force. And don’t kid yourself that rural/red states will feel even a fraction of the up-front pain that will be inflicted upon blue states and every major city out of pure malicious spite. At least, not up front. The economic pains will echo shortly after, but they will continue to say its all the Democrats’ fault.

I still see big Trump stickers where I drive. I see mostly Republican signs wherever I go. Republicans are merely arguing over who sits in the chair while Democrats have been all but legally locked out without a wild quasi-national shift in political demographics. Which modern rhetoric precludes because tribalism>logic and reason.

The country will deteriorate and people will just whine about it and continue about their business as though it isn’t an actual existential threat.

I would love to be wrong, but I unfortunately live here.