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.
They also shared they believe in the USA and that they don’t think this situation will last. The 12 year old, in spite of all that happened to them, was still positive about how things were going to turn out.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
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.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
- Anne Frank
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.
You’d think with all the countries we “liberated from tyrannical leaders”, one of them would repay the favor.
there have been big signs, trump wants to emulate hitler