I don’t know Carol, in Greek myth Cassandra was cursed with being able to accurately foretell the future…and to never be believed. Perhaps it is like the experience my father-in-law had as a Jew in the Berlin of the 1930s. His friends all said that the new Chancellor was a semi-literate clown who would be gone in 6 months, then when thin…
I don’t know Carol, in Greek myth Cassandra was cursed with being able to accurately foretell the future…and to never be believed. Perhaps it is like the experience my father-in-law had as a Jew in the Berlin of the 1930s. His friends all said that the new Chancellor was a semi-literate clown who would be gone in 6 months, then when things started getting bad they all said it couldn’t get worse. When it did he got out, but so many didn’t make it. Thom talks about this a lot in the book "They Thought They Were Free" which contains interviews of Germans who lived through the war. Most just went along with things and didn’t ask questions. Those who knew what the Nazis were and didn’t join them felt helpless and overwhelmed.
I really cannot feel more than sorry for those Americans who just don’t know better with MAGA. They have good reasons to feel hurt, marginalized, and angry about their futures and want somebody to blame. The issue is when they allow themselves to be directed against other groups as the ones who should be attacked. Then you have a mob fueled by hate, and the last century was littered with its victims. The real villains are those who know better but, even if they aren’t part of the group directing the movement, go along to profit from it. They make it possible for those at the top to unbind the hate. Most Republicans in Congress probably fall into this group, trading their souls for their seats, as it were. It must take a strong will to lie every day. (Trump can’t tell the difference, but most of those around him can.) Nothing is worth that.
I don’t know Carol, in Greek myth Cassandra was cursed with being able to accurately foretell the future…and to never be believed. Perhaps it is like the experience my father-in-law had as a Jew in the Berlin of the 1930s. His friends all said that the new Chancellor was a semi-literate clown who would be gone in 6 months, then when things started getting bad they all said it couldn’t get worse. When it did he got out, but so many didn’t make it. Thom talks about this a lot in the book "They Thought They Were Free" which contains interviews of Germans who lived through the war. Most just went along with things and didn’t ask questions. Those who knew what the Nazis were and didn’t join them felt helpless and overwhelmed.
I really cannot feel more than sorry for those Americans who just don’t know better with MAGA. They have good reasons to feel hurt, marginalized, and angry about their futures and want somebody to blame. The issue is when they allow themselves to be directed against other groups as the ones who should be attacked. Then you have a mob fueled by hate, and the last century was littered with its victims. The real villains are those who know better but, even if they aren’t part of the group directing the movement, go along to profit from it. They make it possible for those at the top to unbind the hate. Most Republicans in Congress probably fall into this group, trading their souls for their seats, as it were. It must take a strong will to lie every day. (Trump can’t tell the difference, but most of those around him can.) Nothing is worth that.