SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Civilization’s Dissolution, or a New Renaissance Feb. 2 , 2021 (EIRNS)—History, it is certain, will reflect on the state of Western Civilization in the early 21st Century with wonder and confusion. How, History will put the question, could a civilization which produced such leaps in scientific knowledge, such profound music and poetry, a political system based on the rights of man rather than the rights of an oligarchy—how could such a civilization fall so far, so quickly? The Congress in the United States, a nation which once represented the highest stage of Western culture, has dismissed reason itself. A senile President is calling for unity, while his party is declaring that all those in the opposition party who exercised their constitutional right to challenge the pervasive and self-evident vote fraud are guilty of insurrection, while bringing an unconstitutional impeachment process against a private citizen who was once the President, attempting to disenfranchise his 75 million supporters by declaring him ineligible of ever again running for office. The people who cheered on the anarchist mobs who destroyed large portions of American cities all summer long—burning down police stations and federal buildings, killing policemen—are declaring a pre-planned riot at the U.S. Capitol, full of FBI stringers, to be the equivalent of the Confederacy’s war on the Republic, or even of al-Qaeda’s war on civilization.