Run the government like a business and suck out all the money out of the company by refusing to invest in anything long term and instead sending that money into a small group of owners who actually contribute absolutely nothing.
Millions of tons of a key ingredient for explosives (fertilizer, mostly sheep poop) is illegally smuggled (container ship docking at major port) into a rogue state (no trade deal with US)
The senate Dems MANDATED that ICE get extra funding for more training on how to arrest people properly, and also DEMAND that local police start cooperating with them.
I would set the timing to be JFK becoming president and the Catholic Church being usefully anti-communist.
Maybe the civil rights era? For the progressives, it’s a logical extension of civil rights. For the conservatives, they’re a welcome ally against other even less white groups?
I’ve been trying to pin point exactly why I find Americans asserting “I’m Irish” etc to be so weird and I think the issue for me is that America treats genetics as identity.
Like, it treats genetics as culture. It reduces ethnicity to a question of genes.
To be fair, if your grandmother spoke Italian at home and you have a family recipe for pasta sauce then yeah sure you can celebrate that and that does form part of your identity.
But the “my great great great great grandfather came from Ireland therefore I support the IRA for reasons of tribal loyalty” that’s the part I find weird. It reminds me of supporting a football team.
Run the government like a business and suck out all the money out of the company by refusing to invest in anything long term and instead sending that money into a small group of owners who actually contribute absolutely nothing.