dorchadas | (Reply)

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The polls keep showing that a lot of people are, in aggregate, okay with what's going on. Trump is at like -4.7 disapproval (though he started his term at +10, so the trend is good at least).

I think about how Yad Vashem's list of the Righteous Among the Nations is 28,217 people. That seems like it's a lot but it's 0.01% of the population of Nazi-occupied territory. Most people like to think they'd be hiding the Franks but the truth is they'd be reporting on their neighbors. The lessons learned from Jewish history are mostly that the people around us will never have our backs no matter what we do.

I worry the wrong lessons will be learned in that process and only more grievance.

This is basically inevitable if that's the route it goes. Barring total military defeat, occupation, and re-education (which won't happen), people will just get annoyed. Which makes total sense to me--if you feel like everyone else is against your group, it brings the group tighter together.