

There’s so much missing in the curriculum. Even in my crunchy blue state we never learned about company towns, The Business Plot, Blair Mountain Rebellion, Tulsa, barely anything about Japanese Internment, absolutely nothing about American meddling in South America/The Middle East…
When haven’t Trump era Republicans relied on magical thinking? Even in 2017 they were making shit up like Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre. Proto Trump Sarah Palin whined about government death panels which are kinda coming to fruition but from their own fucking party. FEMA Death Camps is an ongoing fear tactic to kill public trust in government led disaster relief. Newt Gingrich era Republicans constantly talked about Seth Rich and the Clinton Body Count. Their only tactic is to obfuscate any consensus reality. They get to make up their own while getting disengaged voters to lose even more trust in the system. Deepfakes and unregulated AI is only going to make it all worse. It’s a shit feedback loop created by the most cynical, opportunistic fuckheads who offer nothing and prey on our worst impulses.