National parks ordered to check gift shops for DEI-type items

Yes they are specific historical people that did things or advanced ideas we as a culture celebrate, like the notion of equality under the law.

The authoritarian playbook is to use a mystical, ill defined "great past" when a tribal "we" were "great" in all we did. No specifics. Greatness by God mandate.

Only way to highlight them is to highlight the "disparaging" context they had to work against. So I don't expect them to do that.

Their previous efforts to execute on this supposed narrative has been to wipe out any recognition of minorities and women.

It’s simple really. White folk, especially old white men, have done so many bad things for so long that there really isn’t much legitimate good things that they can take credit for anymore. Add to that a systemic lack of accountability, and you get a lot of fragile egos that don’t understand that part of life is a) apologizing, and 2) sitting with and thinking about the things that make you uncomfortable. So instead, they prop themselves up by bringing other people down, and removing the legitimate accomplishments of the people that in effect demonstrate how inferior these white old men genuinely are.

_{i.e. they lack emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, and empathy.}

How could they vote for him twice? And slowly, partially wake up to what they voted for a year after the fact even though the writing was on the wall for almost a decade? Rhetorical questions. I'm pretty sure I heard all answers. Four years is a long time to fuck up a lot of things, many of them terminally. It is something to despair over.

My empathy.