I had hysterical covidiots scream at me that I should be denied healthcare, denied emergency room access, prevented from going to the grocery store, all because I wouldn't take the vaccine. My employer came "this close" to letting me go because I refused to participate in the mandate/exemption farce. If the government had said "PUT THEM IN CAMPS" there would have been a clamor to do it immediately. Most people are blind sheep yearning to be led down any path, and if you think Nazi Germany couldn't happen here in a heartbeat, you don't understand basic human nature at all.
I remember believing that with all of history taught in school, that hardly anyone in the US would fall for propaganda. Boy, was I naive. I get it now. I now know who in my life would have hunted down Ann Frank verses who would have hid her. And I will never forget. Never. In one sense, I feel liberated. In another sense, I feel lonely, sad and angry.
Not even going into the issues with the way we teach kids and how bad schools are, but the way we go about teaching history is not as a type of warning but more in the spirit of "we are so much better now, our society is infallible now" so it's not a surprise people are so blind to it, they weren't taught it as something to look out for and stop.
I had hysterical covidiots scream at me that I should be denied healthcare, denied emergency room access, prevented from going to the grocery store, all because I wouldn't take the vaccine. My employer came "this close" to letting me go because I refused to participate in the mandate/exemption farce. If the government had said "PUT THEM IN CAMPS" there would have been a clamor to do it immediately. Most people are blind sheep yearning to be led down any path, and if you think Nazi Germany couldn't happen here in a heartbeat, you don't understand basic human nature at all.
I remember believing that with all of history taught in school, that hardly anyone in the US would fall for propaganda. Boy, was I naive. I get it now. I now know who in my life would have hunted down Ann Frank verses who would have hid her. And I will never forget. Never. In one sense, I feel liberated. In another sense, I feel lonely, sad and angry.
Not even going into the issues with the way we teach kids and how bad schools are, but the way we go about teaching history is not as a type of warning but more in the spirit of "we are so much better now, our society is infallible now" so it's not a surprise people are so blind to it, they weren't taught it as something to look out for and stop.
AMEN! I'm a retired (42 yrs) Soc St and English teacher. I'm so embarrassed when "college" kids and adults are interviewed by "man on the street".
Us, too...my husband and I would cringe when Jesse Watters would do these street interviews. Embarrassed.