Curious how old you are? Maybe memory fades for you. IтАЩll be 73 soon and I remember well. I would say it was definitely worse but also different. JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr., the SDS, the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the SLA, Kent State. And overseas, the IRA, the Japanese Red Army. There was even a kind of romanticism about violent radicalism, bomb building, etc. But at least back then, people werenтАЩt getting their information from confirmation bias affirming algorithms. The kind of hatred toward fellow humans Trump has inspired, calling immigrants vermin and Democrats the enemy within, and the perpetration of this hate through state propagandist Fox News, that is actually worse.
IтАЩm younger but not young! To me, this is the difference: My feeling is that Trump is taking apart the country and doing it in record time. I mean, taking it apart as if itтАЩs a car engine and throwing the pieces away. ThatтАЩs not how I remember those days, but, yeah, I was pretty young. Comparing Nixon - who bowed to pressure and left - with Trump, thatтАЩs my benchmark. Plus, the corruption now is so far beyond the ways things were then. Did you see our interview with Sarah Chayes? This goes deep.
Way worse now than the 60s
Curious how old you are? Maybe memory fades for you. IтАЩll be 73 soon and I remember well. I would say it was definitely worse but also different. JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr., the SDS, the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the SLA, Kent State. And overseas, the IRA, the Japanese Red Army. There was even a kind of romanticism about violent radicalism, bomb building, etc. But at least back then, people werenтАЩt getting their information from confirmation bias affirming algorithms. The kind of hatred toward fellow humans Trump has inspired, calling immigrants vermin and Democrats the enemy within, and the perpetration of this hate through state propagandist Fox News, that is actually worse.
IтАЩm younger but not young! To me, this is the difference: My feeling is that Trump is taking apart the country and doing it in record time. I mean, taking it apart as if itтАЩs a car engine and throwing the pieces away. ThatтАЩs not how I remember those days, but, yeah, I was pretty young. Comparing Nixon - who bowed to pressure and left - with Trump, thatтАЩs my benchmark. Plus, the corruption now is so far beyond the ways things were then. Did you see our interview with Sarah Chayes? This goes deep.