My family are immigrants from Poland. If you know anything about the history of Poland...

I found/still find a lot of Americans' perspectives (of those beyond 1st gen & sometimes those 1st gens who have been sheltered from their families' pasts) are skewed by how good they as a society in general have had it historically & even recently in comparison to the vast majority of other experiences, even with all things under the table considered. I saw a similar thing happening in Western Europe & other parts of The Western World, since The Western World benefitted a lot from America's good times & protections.

The effect is sort of like how a child thinks that a deep scratch or cut is the absolute worst pain because they have never experienced mangled muscles & broken bones. They have only ever been scratched before, so when they get that deep scratch or slice, which is the worst they could have ever imagined, they feel more harmed than they really are & they cannot understand why they are not getting the sympathy or quick protective action that they feel they deserve from their fathers. But their fathers before them & the children who have had more of those experiences & the perspective that comes along with it know how much worse it can really be & how minor a harm it is in reality.

America is now in a transitional stage of growing pains where it is starting to witness or receive the experiences that prove how minor previous offences were (& along with it, the perspective of how they were weak & how it was being used against them). They are starting to get more awareness of how bad things can really be, without fully understanding (though better understanding) what truly is the worst. The closer we get to the worst, the more & more will awaken realizing we seriously don't actually want to get there. The quickest learners, future thinkers, & more aware are figuring it out first, but the slowest learners, sensory experiencers, & deep sleepers will be the very last. Those will only jump ship when it is already underwater & they are in it to their necks (& some of them may even miss the lifeboat).

America hasn't seen absolute despotism yet, at least not on public display for all to see. We are much closer than we ever have been, and we have seen real despotism, but we aren't quite at absolute despotism. Not yet.

We have yet to take the fall that will very quickly take us there, but we are certainly very, very close to it's precipice.

My family are immigrants from Poland. If you know anything about the history of Poland...

I found/still find a lot of Americans' perspectives (of those beyond 1st gen & sometimes those 1st gens who have been sheltered from their families' pasts) are skewed by how good they as a society in general have had it historically & even recently in comparison to the vast majority of other experiences, even with all things under the table considered. I saw a similar thing happening in Western Europe & other parts of The Western World, since The Western World benefitted a lot from America's good times & protections.

The effect is sort of like how a child thinks that a deep scratch or cut is the absolute worst pain because they have never experienced mangled muscles & broken bones. They have only ever been scratched before, so when they get that deep scratch or slice, which is the worst they could have ever imagined, they feel more harmed than they really are & they cannot understand why they are not getting the sympathy or quick protective action that they feel they deserve from their fathers. But their fathers before them & the children who have had more of those experiences & the perspective that comes along with it know how much worse it can really be & how minor a harm it is in reality.

America is now in a transitional stage of growing pains where it is starting to witness or receive the experiences that prove how minor previous offences were (& along with it, the perspective of how they were weak & how it was being used against them). They are starting to get more awareness of how bad things can really be, without fully understanding (though better understanding) what truly is the worst. The closer we get to the worst, the more & more will awaken realizing we seriously don't actually want to get there. The quickest learners, future thinkers, & more aware are figuring it out first, but the slowest learners, sensory experiencers, & deep sleepers will be the very last. Those will only jump ship when it is already underwater & they are in it to their necks (& some of them may even miss the lifeboat).

America hasn't seen absolute despotism yet, at least not on public display for all to see. We are much closer than we ever have been, and we have seen real despotism, but we aren't quite at absolute despotism. Not yet.

We have yet to take the fall that will very quickly take us there, but we are certainly very, very close to it's precipice.

My family are immigrants from Poland. If you know anything about the history of Poland...

I found/still find a lot of Americans' perspectives (of those beyond 1st gen & sometimes those 1st gens who have been sheltered from their families' pasts) are skewed by how good they as a society in general have had it historically & even recently in comparison to the vast majority of other experiences, even with all things under the table considered. I saw a similar thing happening in Western Europe & other parts of The Western World, since The Western World benefitted a lot from America's good times & protections.

The effect is sort of like how a child thinks that a deep scratch or cut is the absolute worst pain because they have never experienced mangled muscles & broken bones. They have only ever been scratched before, so when they get that deep scratch or slice, which is the worst they could have ever imagined, they feel more harmed than they really are & they cannot understand why they are not getting the sympathy or quick protective action that they feel they deserve from their fathers. But their fathers before them & the children who have had more of those experiences & the perspective that comes along with it know how much worse it can really be & how minor a harm it is in reality.

America is now in a transitional stage of growing pains where it is starting to witness or receive the experiences that prove how minor previous offences were (& along with it, the perspective of how they were weak & how it was being used against them). They are starting to get more awareness of how bad things can really be, without fully understanding (though better understanding) what truly is the worst. The closer we get to the worst, the more & more will awaken realizing we seriously don't actually want to get there. The quickest learners, future thinkers, & more aware are figuring it out first, but the slowest learners, sensory experiencers, & deep sleepers will be the very last. Those will only jump ship when it is already underwater & they are in it to their necks (& some of them may even miss the lifeboat).

America hasn't seen absolute despotism yet, at least not on public display for all to see. We are much closer than we ever have been, and we have seen real despotism, but we aren't quite at absolute despotism. Not yet.

We have yet to take the fall that will very quickly take us there, but we are certainly very, very close to it's precipice.