How Did We Get Here?

If you ask ten different people how we ended up like this, you’ll get ten different answers.

Some will say it was the overwhelming flood of information—24/7 news cycles, social media algorithms, a world drowning in headlines and half-truths.
Some will say it was economic frustration—that entire communities, ignored for generations, finally reached a breaking point.
Some will blame decades of political division, the slow erosion of trust, the belief that every institution is corrupt.
Some will say it was foreign interference. Others will say it was inevitable.

For immigrants, it may have been something else—the realization that the country they fought to be part of wasn’t as unshakable as it once seemed.
For lifelong Americans, maybe it was waking up to a reality that had been simmering under the surface for decades.

And for some, it’s all of the above.

Maybe it wasn’t one reason. Maybe it was all of them, happening at the same time, forming the perfect storm.

The conspiracy theorists say it was planned.
The historians say history is bound to repeat itself.
The optimists say it’s fixable.

So, who’s right?

And more importantly—what happens next?