Miller: “The tragedy is a political party and a movement that has ripped down our statues, our monuments, our holidays, our heroes, our heritage,” Miller continued, ignoring the fact that the Trump administration has itself called for the removal of statues that do not align with its version of history.
“The Republican Party under President Trump celebrates beauty again and beautification again, and just as President Trump has beautified Washington D.C., now he’s repairing, finally, an area of the White House that has been left in disrepair for decades.”
This is a common misconception amongst civilizations throughout history. Usually it reveals a profound misunderstanding/assumption that the people who are being exploited to make those gains will never speak up or rebuke the institutions that take advantage of them.
I’m sure there were Western colonial powers that thought their particularly despicable brand of chattel slavery would last forever and lead to unlimited growth for slave owners and the state. But the people of Haiti and Jamaica revolted. The American civil war followed.
We are certainly at a point which no human has ever seen before today but there will always be “self-cleansing” cycles so to speak.