“the jews are overcrowding our hospitals” – hitler“immigrants are a burden on medicare and medicaid” -trump These statements are both lies. They are lies that prey on our insecurities we have about life and death. Our insecure feelings about life and death give us the fear we need to rationalize the empowerment of this mass murdering child rapist. Get it?
each of us isa jagged shardof broken glasswith razor sharpedges that cutdeep on all sidesinto the skin.we hurt each otherobserve the paingrateful that weare not the oneswho hurt today.
This is a summary of my recent learnings of North American history in context of contemporary events. Studying history has opened the time aperture through which I look at our current situation. I am reticent to admit my negligence in considering the past prior to this year. To understand the authoritarian state of the US today, we cannot look back