Recent content by MendotoManteo

That's very well put. What do you teach? I have an English PhD from the University of Tennessee. Taught many classes but never brought up John Brown, because he was lost to even me at the time. This is mid-00s to 2014 or so. The people you mention. It reminds me how propagandized we are...

Poor John Brown. No one comments much because very few remember. As we've been taught to forget him. I don't know what US History courses you took, but mine never involved John Brown. He was an afterthought. And rightfully so. Because it was never the intention of this country to live up to...

Thank you for sharing! I had not seen that video before.

Of all the figures in American history that intrigue me the most, it's John Brown. Whatever one may think of him, I believe him to be the most exceptional American that has ever lived. He's largely fallen into the dustbin of history, although the Showtime "The Good Lord Bird" miniseries during...

True but things are relative. You're right though that we tolerate things many do not. At least in the developed world.

As Americans, we accept a certain level of corruption, lies, unaccountability, etc., from our politicians. Always have. It's obviously imperfect, and we should do better. However, this has always been the case, and we've still managed. Trump is an entirely different level of these things. And...

You're not wrong. However, it obviously affects us all, unfortunately. The idea of a "reckoning" comes to mind here. In its true sense and not just the casual way we sometimes use the term. John Brown, for instance (and who I may just start a thread about here shortly), said that the fact of...

No, it's the plan.

I don't know what you've watched the past decade, but I know what I've seen. Even prior to that, when he was elected in 2016, I told everyone we'll see tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Ave, like the Russian Constitutional Crisis. It didn't come to tanks but came darn close. And people died...

Honestly, I have none. We deserve this. I could say the Democratic Party should do this or that but they won't. At least not long enough to matter. Slightly amusing sidenote, but the "they're just weird" thing that Harris and Walz launched out with really did work. They just stopped too...

The fact we even have to think about this frustrates me very much. I never thought we'd have to think about these things. But here we are. And, you know what? We deserve it. All the shit we've done to other people around the globe. We deserve it. I just remember as a boy, being told about...

An optimist.

What are you going to do? It's so obvious that this is the plan, Steve Bannon aside. Part of the 2020 grievance has always been about deserving another term, because he was "robbed." Just as I expected when he was first elected, everything will end in bloodshed. It's so obvious what he is to...

You know, we joke about things but it is truly a wonder. How I'm talking to you right now. How your children communicate with you. How you even had children in the first place. It's all a wonder. The days grow short now, literally and figuratively. If any of us knew how matter came into...

What say you?