There are tons of people living unexamined lives that were raised to fear a shift in the status quo, but were intentionally oblivious enough to let change happen gradually. And then someone showed up to yell in their faces that change was happening, you have to stop it right now! - ThreadSky

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social • 7 days ago

There are tons of people living unexamined lives that were raised to fear a shift in the status quo, but were intentionally oblivious enough to let change happen gradually. And then someone showed up to yell in their faces that change was happening, you have to stop it right now!

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whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

The enemy is fear, and specifically, fear of change. Any change is bad. The enemy says we need to change. The goal is to get back to that one point in time that you remember where America was perfect and everything was good. To roll back everything between where we are and where that is.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

The beautiful trick of it all is that when America is perfect is whenever you remember enough about life to remember being happen, but not enough about everything that was actually going on. You can hook Boomers by promising a 50s that never existed and Gen X with an 80s that never did.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

Did you live somewhere that was too isolated to see a diverse range of people? Did you grow up in an era where you could ignore the news if it was only on for a half hour a night? Did your parents lie to you about the nature of the relationship of relatives? Maybe even their own relationship?

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

You weren't ignorant of reality. If you didn't see it, it wasn't there. And it can go away again, if you just resist these people that are definitely changing things, and not just being vocal about things that have always existed.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bush taught us to be afraid of a change in the status quo, so much, that we could fundamentally change how we interacted with the rules that underpin society, which is the most drastic, but largely invisible, change of status quo there is.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•7 days ago

If people can be seized and sent to a slave labor camp in another country, if you're not in danger of it, and nobody you care about is, that's just part of what needs to be done so we can get back to that time in your mind when you don't remember brown people around you speaking another language.

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