1 sat \ 3 replies \ @orthzar 10 Jul 2023 \ on: What "crazy" ideas will be commonplace in the future? meta
Within 5 years, Americans will believe that COVID restrictions, especially lockdowns, were exclusively Democratic policies, despite the fact that 76% of Republican governors declared lockdowns. I know a Republican in Florida who believes that Florida never had a lockdown, despite the fact that Trump (a Republican) criticized De Santis (a Republican) for ending the lockdown in Florida. You can't end something that never started.
Americans aren’t that stupid, but I’m sure you wish we were.
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Where do you get that idea? Is it because I don't praise America with my every breath?
I have seen first-hand that most Americans are proudly ignorant of the past, unless a specific historical episode somehow justifies the current propaganda that they absorb from mass media. The few Americans who want to understand history are ignored or called crazy by the rest. Americans deserve every tribulation they experience -- repeating the mistakes of the past is the only just consequence for their pride.
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Dawg you just described most countries. Everyone internalizes positive message that aligns with their biases, and maligns those that don’t. Unless a human being can evolve past blindly following their biological programming, it’s human nature
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