it doesn’t “go away” obviously, but it’s not new. We’ve been the evil country for the entire time we have existed. Normalcy will bear the weight of evil in America for as long as America exists in its current form.
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god this isn’t even getting into Biden deporting more people more quickly than Trump term 1, expanding refugee torture camps on the border, proliferating corporate internment camps, AND giving billions to Israel to fund a genocide to the point Israel was surprised we keep sending them money!
People are speaking about Trump like a singular event, as if all of the tools he’s using weren’t built and wielded by every president before. Difference is he’s turning them on citizens.
I’d like to see that claim and raise you one “humans end up doing at least some evil things to each other literally every time there is enough power concentrated for it to happen.” It never goes away.
USA is the tyrant of the moment simply becasue we are big enough and stronrg enough to do so. Sufficient evil will soon end that tyranny, and you can already see the response forming. But evil will be back, any time people have big sticks and feel scared.
Balancing that—I think that tendency is gradually receding. Life is still brutal, but so much less in so many ways than it was a thousand, a hundred, even fifty years ago. I think we are slowly figuring out how to live better. I wish I could to see where we go, but my life will see only this.
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