Let's write about Winston Churchill and his autobiography: An insightful 1930 perspective

 Honestly, I cannot believe what the decline we are witnesssing in America, just 231 days into the Donald Trump autocratic regime.  

Social media is saturated with negativity about the evil cruelty being imposed by the Trump administration, using unlimited executive authority to terrorize immigrants and Americans who disagree with Trumpziism.  

Almost like I needed anything to help with my mental health therapy, I just hapened to find this very relevant paragraph written by Winston Churchill in his autobiography

He titled the autobiography, "My Early Life".  

He wrote this book as an update or sequel to an autobiography he wrote 30 years before this introduction (preface) was added in 1930. He dedicated his update to :To A New Generation: Preface to the Original Edition and this is what he wrote, in 1930:

"When I survey this autobiographical work, as a whole, I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age.  The character of society, the foundations of politics, the methods of war, the outlook of our youth, the scale of values ae all changed, and changed to an extent I should not have believed possible in so short a space without any violent domestic revolution.

I cannot pretend to feel that they are in all respects changed for the better.  I was a child of the Victorian era, when the structure of our country seemed firmly set, when its position in trade and on the sea was unrivalled, and when the realisation of the greatness of our Empire and of our duty to preserve it was ever growing stronger.  In those days, the dominant forces in Great Britain were very sure of themselves and of their doctrines.  They thought they could teach the world the art of government, and the science of economics.  They were sure they  were supreme at sea and consequently safe at home.  They rested, threfore, sedately under the convictins of power and security.  Very different is the aspect of these anxious and dubious times when I write today.  Full allowence for such changes should be made by friendly readers.  Winston Churchill Chartwell Manor 1930 

And so, the moral of this message is captured in this cliche: "The more things change, the more they remain the same". Nevertheless Winston Churchill saw his vision for the world realized when his brave leadereship stood against Nazism.  I pray for the same courage from American leaders to oppose Trumpziim.