It is quite evident that voters in this last election, both Trump ones and those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but either switched their vote or did not show up for Kamala Harris did not learn from or remember the history of the last eight years.
They did not learn or remember what happened on January 6, 2021.
They did not learn from what happens when Presidents make consequential nominations to the United States Supreme Court and lower federal benches that affect women's lives.
They did not learn or remember from the experiences of the COVID 19 Pandemic when the Trump Administration, aside from Operation Warp Speed, botched the response, causing the deaths of thousands of Americans and the tanking of the United States economy.
They did not remember that the great majority of Mr. Trump's cabinet and staff, including his own Vice President did not support him in his 2024 run.
They did not remember that Mr. Trump and his MAGA lieutenants offered a cesspool of lies and misinformation including memorable ones like "Mexico will pay for the wall," "Inject bleach to ward off COVID," "There's good people on both sides," and "I have a health care plan that will be better than Obamacare."
They did not learn from Trump's two impeachments, 34 criminal convictions, 91 indictments, and judgements for sexual assault and failed business practices.
They did not learn and remember that Democrats have rescued the economy after Republican Presidents tanked it in 2008 and 2020.
They did not learn from or notice the economic recovery the Biden/Harris Administration launched that saved the country (record unemployment and jobs created, Bipartisan Infrastructure, a Manufacturing Renaissance, CHIPS Act, Reduced Drug Price for Seniors, Expansion of Internet to rural areas, removing lead pipes from impoverished neighborhoods, massive investments in Clean Energy, a Record number of women and minority judicial appointments to the federal bench) and made the United States the envy of the world.
They did not learn or remember that Republicans, four times, over the last 18 years, have stymied bipartisan immigration reform causing the problem to fester.
They did not learn or notice that in many of Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's economic speeches that they understood that inflation was causing hardship and they had plans (like universal pre-k, free community college, free school lunches, expanded child tax credit, extending the prescription drug benefit, paid family and medical leave) to help combat it that Republicans and Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin resisted.
They did not learn or notice when Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, told the audience that the Democratic Presidents advantage in Job Creation since 1989 was 50 million in the Clinton, Obama, and Biden years to one.in the Bush I, Bush II, and Trump eras.
There is a reason Donald Trump said this in 2016.
Mr. Trump's re-election and the election of those who subscribe to his beliefs is further proof of the need for more history, government, and economics education in the nation's schools.
All high schoolers should have four years of history education along with a year in both government and economics.
Children should be taught to beware of Fascist Demagogues who scapegoat others, engage in false advertising, and promise the moon of prosperity without actually delivering.
The old saying, attributed to several, of "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" is on point after the elections.
The voters in Tuesday's election just proved that adage true.
Hopefully, American resilience can overcome the doom the majority of the people, who did not learn or remember history, may have set us on the path towards.
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