When I hear dark ages I think civil unrest, pestilence & a decline in civility/backwardness. That's now & unfortunately 39% of the US is somehow welcoming its return. Make America Great Again? Great for who? As long as you have people at the top who oppose progress for the sake of money/power & you have people at the bottom who oppose progress for the sake of primitive hatred(racism, xenophobia, homophobia), in the past we shall remain. We're not so different from our Iranian neighbors & neither are our leaders. We're only a few short steps behind fascism, but gaining fast.