Hot Type: 'It's War'

In her new column, Hot Type, Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on how the denial of Russian attacks on US minds is jeopardising American sovereignty, and looks at how the people can find their way back.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Photomontage: PA Images / Alamy

There is no arc of history. It doesn’t bend toward justice. It’s what people do or do not do. I learned that from one of Timothy Snyder’s lectures on the Making of Modern Ukraine.

In a Frontline interview, the author of Bloodlands expanded on that concept, suggesting that history is always with us and informs us, but that we should not fall prey to the myth of preordained justice.

“There’s no such thing as history on your side,” the Yale professor explained. “And I think the whole arc of history bending towards justice, it’s a nice thing; one likes to believe things like that are true. But there’s no arc of history; it’s not bending in any particular direction. You can make democracies happen, but to make democracies happen, you have to first set a really good example yourself.”

Currently, America has become a schizophrenic country. We have been blanketed by information warfare, and depending on what information one is ingesting, they will see the world with MAGA eyes or pro-democracy eyes.

The MAGA Cult has been conditioned to believe Democrats are communists, despite knowing absolutely nothing about communism. The MAGA Cult has joined openly with the racist and bigoted values of Russkiy Mir — or Russian world — because MAGA was always a Kremlin-GOP joint production, it’s just now out in the open.

The pro-democracy contingency sees the very scary and very real threat of November being potentially the last free election in the Great American Experiment. The Democratic candidates are doing their best to uplift the people with joyful messaging, while the media continues its deleterious addiction to Donald Trump and his sycophants.