Tom Morello

Hey MAGA, I'm just curious. If you insist on calling the former president Barack Hussain Obama, why don't you call the FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel???

Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."

The really unforgivable thing is not the violence. Violence in war is ancient. Every civilization has it. Every people has done it and suffered it. The unforgivable thing is the innocence maintained in the face of it. The German population after World War II was forced into a reckoning. Photographs. Trials. The physical, documented, undeniable architecture of what had been done in their name. Many resisted the reckoning. Many said they didn't know. But the reckoning was imposed. It was institutionalized. Guilt became a structural feature of German civic identity. The United States has never had its reckoning. Not for Vietnam. Not for the coups. Not for the chemical weapons. Not for the prison camps. Not for the drone programs. Not for the hundred other things that are documented in their own government's declassified files. The reckoning keeps not arriving. And so the innocence stays intact. And so the next war is entered with the same clean conscience. And so the cycle never breaks from the inside. It only breaks when the outside stops accepting it. We stopped accepting it a long time ago. We're still waiting for them to notice.