I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • dohpaz42
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    1318 days ago

    I’m not a historian, but my guess is that we have lived too many generations without major political incident; the kind you’re supposed to make heads roll over.

    We’ve been indoctrinated since birth to blindly love our country, to mind what we say; we have seen other countries and their political unrest, and we ignorantly convinced ourselves that it will never be like that here.

    And despite the cop out response of “we vOtEd fOr it”, otherwise good, hardworking Americans were lied to by their friends, family, church, and beloved government for so long that they can’t know any better.

    Make no mistake, we fucked up and let our hubris get the better of us. I hope we can see the error of our ways and fight back before it really is too late.

    • @ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      818 days ago

      I’m not a historian, but my guess is that we have lived too many generations without major political incident; the kind you’re supposed to make heads roll over.

      Really though? Just off the top of my head:

      Eisenhower to Nixon

      • Vietnam

      JFK

      • Rigged elections in Illinois with aid of the mafia.
      • Bay of Pigs

      Nixon

      • Watergate
      • Being Richard Nixon

      Reagan

      • Illegal invasion of Grenada
      • Iran-Contra

      Clinton

      • Executing a developmentally-challenged man as a campaign stunt.
      • Lewinsky Affair
      • Many rape allegations over decades
      • Whitewater

      Bush II

      • Illegal invasion of Iraq

      Obama

      • Bugging of Merkel’s phone

      Trump

      • Everything

      Biden

      • Medical incapacity
        • Ænima
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          There’s that old thought experiment on who someone would take out of time travel existed. I used to think that Hitler would be a good target. However, seeing how many of the current issues started because of something Reagan gutted, reduced, or schemed to disrupt or remove makes him my new target. So much of our current shituation can be directly tied back to Reagan.