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. - ThreadSky

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social • 4 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.

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whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 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•4 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•4 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•4 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.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

If people already broke the wonderful economy of the United States by letting unqualified people run everything because of DEI, something you never heard of when you were young, surely we can weather whatever economic upheavals happen when the president STANDS UP TO other countries on our behalf.

whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nixon flaunted the law. Reagan flaunted the law. But it took decades of "um, actually" conservatism to get the Supreme Court and half of congress to agree that laws only count when you really want them to.

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