Donald Trump anchored his bid to win a second White House term next week on searing anti-migrant fear at a rally at Madison Square Garden, doubling down on his promise for a massive deportation program on Day 1 to reverse an “immigrant invasion.”
There was a status to being a WW2 vet because of the direct experience. Because it was lauded time in American history. And because when you look someone in the eye who has been in a concentration camp, be it the victim or the liberators/witnesses to destruction (gramps wouldn’t give details, it was his job to take his team from camp to camp to liberate, but he implied there was usually little left to liberate.) it’s hard to spout your disconnected nonsense and not get punched in the face.
Now we’re all on equal standing in terms of not a single one of us was there. This is likely how history repeats, this process we’re witnessing right now.
There was a status to being a WW2 vet because of the direct experience. Because it was lauded time in American history. And because when you look someone in the eye who has been in a concentration camp, be it the victim or the liberators/witnesses to destruction (gramps wouldn’t give details, it was his job to take his team from camp to camp to liberate, but he implied there was usually little left to liberate.) it’s hard to spout your disconnected nonsense and not get punched in the face.
Now we’re all on equal standing in terms of not a single one of us was there. This is likely how history repeats, this process we’re witnessing right now.
I feel like a major point of modern media is to foster disconnected nonsense.