One is always in danger of being wrong when thinking that any contemporary event will end up having much historic importance.
Our times always seem more momentous and challenging than those that came before. Still, I think the first few weeks of December 2019 will go down in history as momentous and a time that will demand reflection.
And, most of that history being made was lost in the American media by one big story that sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Yes, it’s momentous that the House of Representatives marched down the road toward the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Trump is now the third president to have been impeached. That’s history in the making, and momentous history it is. It will set precedents, and those precedents will cast a shadow over our future presidents and Congresses. But, he‘ll also not be removed from office by the Senate, and so we’ll return to the status quo early in the new year.
However, while the media was obsessing over the drama of members of the House reading their scripts (no, not “debating”), some other momentous things were happening that got too little attention.
