A Year After The Distortion
This may get a little wordy, so bear with me for a while. A little over a year ago this month, we officially entered the Glitch. This isn't a corner of The Twilight Zone , a sector in The Outer Limits , or a reflection within the Black Mirror , but rather some odd series of events that showed the world that the United States of America is not only imperfect but critically flawed, unapologetically hateful, unbalanced, and tenuously fragile. The United States showed the world that it doesn't matter if you're educated, empathetic, rational, and truly overqualified, ESPECIALLY if you're a person of color or a woman. The United States showed the world that its citizens are pretty okay with authoritarian fascism under the rule of a revenge-seeking felonious despot surrounded by racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic sycophants. Hell, some of those countries LOVE that about us. The whole day it went down felt like a physical distortion as if something wasn'...