WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.
I never read her diary. I should. I do wonder what kind of literature we’ll get from the persecuted survivors when this all ends, regardless of how it does. I did read “American Dirt”, an Oprah-friendly dramatization (don’t know the word, it’s a first person account told as a novel) of illegally entering America. This post reminds me of that, a bit, too.
I hate how incredibly relevant it is now. I visited her hiding space many years ago and never imagined then that the US would go down the same road as Nazi Germany. Not because It Couldn’t Happen Here, but because I thought we had learned from it and were better than that. I was very, very wrong.
Anne was right then and this one will end eventually as well, but I fear it will take much longer, prolonging the suffering, since there’s no coalition of power that will be liberating the US like there was with Germany.
there have been big signs, trump wants to emulate hitler, most of the us is captivated by propaganda that something will stop them, or nothing serious will occur, thats how trump got in office twice. complacency.
The parallels are so strong.
I never read her diary. I should. I do wonder what kind of literature we’ll get from the persecuted survivors when this all ends, regardless of how it does. I did read “American Dirt”, an Oprah-friendly dramatization (don’t know the word, it’s a first person account told as a novel) of illegally entering America. This post reminds me of that, a bit, too.
I hate how incredibly relevant it is now. I visited her hiding space many years ago and never imagined then that the US would go down the same road as Nazi Germany. Not because It Couldn’t Happen Here, but because I thought we had learned from it and were better than that. I was very, very wrong.
Anne was right then and this one will end eventually as well, but I fear it will take much longer, prolonging the suffering, since there’s no coalition of power that will be liberating the US like there was with Germany.
there have been big signs, trump wants to emulate hitler, most of the us is captivated by propaganda that something will stop them, or nothing serious will occur, thats how trump got in office twice. complacency.
You’d think with all the countries we “liberated from tyrannical leaders”, one of them would repay the favor.