> What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction?<p>That's easy. Just like living in Narnia, Middle Earth, or Warhammer 40K.<p>The Tower of Babel was a story created by Bronze Age sheep herders to explain what we know today as linguistic drift.<p>Basing your entire essay on ancient myths is tenuous logic to say the least. As for claiming that it all started going off the rails in 2010?<p>To quote an ancient African American proverb:<p><pre><code> "We tried to tell y'all."
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When this nation let entire swaths of the country take their kids out of public schools when racial segregation was banned and indoctrinate them at home with religious cults and xenophobia, what did folks think would happen?<p>The last 15 years might have been the most visible to the willfully ignorant, but a Supreme Court justice like Amy Comey Barrett does just appear out of thin air. She is 100% a product of a 50+ year old shift, and a completely predictable one at that.<p>And that shift that started 50-60 years ago was a result of the previous century of racial barbarism, itself a reaction to a war where it was determined you can't own, buy, or sell an entire family tree in perpetuity.<p>Christian Dominionism didn't just fall out of the sky and dominate GOP politics out of nowhere. A lot of folks have known for a long time that these folks, when denied power, would much rather embrace authoritarianism than accept democracy without being in charge. They'd rather install Trump as a dictator than accept that most Americans do not share their cultish views.<p>2010? MAGA? Try John Birch Society.