Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past… and not even in 10 years all the major civil rights achievements of rhe past 70 years are being thrown out so fast it is making my head spin.
Is there any actual understanding of how catastrophic this is, and will continue to be? Like, any internalization or admission of what’s happening?
And that’s a serious question - read an article the other day about how a bunch of Iowan farmers were still super gung-ho for orangeboi, because of how deep they were in the propaganda
Most people here don’t have any post-secondary education, but on a deep instinctive level are processing it as best they can. I’m of the opinion it’s still deeply subconscious, as far as implications, but is working it’s way to being consciously grasped beyond immediate implications. This is farm country, and there are plenty who don’t have that level of inference yet. The old timers remember immediate Post-Depression efforts and the second Great War, so they’re cottoning on. Admission? And panic the children? These things are discussed in the fields, not in public.