Not just the cold war Red Scare, anti-communist propaganda. Republicans have been consistently cutting funding for education for decades, many many many people in the States have a distorted understanding of actual history. I have a good friend who was taught IN SCHOOL that the reason the Confederate States tried to secede was because of “economic restrictions”. He’s a good guy, not racist or bigoted. He’s just been lied to his entire life. There’s things we all onboard growing up. Being confronted by reality is difficult. Many people just can’t. They would rather keep their beliefs, their zeitgeist, and through the fiction that they have been indoctrinated into from birth be racist bigots, offended that you would claim that you would say that they live in conditions that are more common in “third world” countries, even when the “potable” water from their tap gives them cancer and is literally flammable. Why? Because it’s the best country in the world! It’s been 70 plus years of brainwashing. And there has been so so many people, smart, qualified people, saying that things that were/are being done will end up where they are now.
If the US doesn’t make wars to come being fought on a blasted hellscape, and puts this fascist coup into the fucking shackles it should be in, there is decades of deprogramming, and rebuilding what was supposed to be a bastion of democracy, but has proven even more fragile than everyone thought.
To build on what the other person wrote:
Not just the cold war Red Scare, anti-communist propaganda. Republicans have been consistently cutting funding for education for decades, many many many people in the States have a distorted understanding of actual history. I have a good friend who was taught IN SCHOOL that the reason the Confederate States tried to secede was because of “economic restrictions”. He’s a good guy, not racist or bigoted. He’s just been lied to his entire life. There’s things we all onboard growing up. Being confronted by reality is difficult. Many people just can’t. They would rather keep their beliefs, their zeitgeist, and through the fiction that they have been indoctrinated into from birth be racist bigots, offended that you would claim that you would say that they live in conditions that are more common in “third world” countries, even when the “potable” water from their tap gives them cancer and is literally flammable. Why? Because it’s the best country in the world! It’s been 70 plus years of brainwashing. And there has been so so many people, smart, qualified people, saying that things that were/are being done will end up where they are now.
If the US doesn’t make wars to come being fought on a blasted hellscape, and puts this fascist coup into the fucking shackles it should be in, there is decades of deprogramming, and rebuilding what was supposed to be a bastion of democracy, but has proven even more fragile than everyone thought.