DID WE NOT SEE IT COMING, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 2021?

 "It was a fearful thing to see a continent - a 

civilization - crumbling before one's eyes."  

"It was a rapid and seemingly inevitable process 

to which no one paid any particular attention."

     Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885-April 16, 1916), Author, playwright, speaking about the rise of the Nazi Party, circa 1922.