Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I’m reading this book, and it’s like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling “oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!” Not as blatant and (I don’t know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I’m missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government’s overreach… Etc, it’s all here now.
Same as it ever was.
That divide/polarization, the police brutality, pollution … All of it… It has been going on for a long time.
It is all here now. But it was all there then too.
That’s just sad. I didn’t grow up in the US, so I don’t know much about its recent history, aside from what I’ve read/watched on TV.