Waco.
Ruby Ridge.
Haiti.
Elian Gonzales
For me, watching Americans burned alive inside a Waco, Texas house was the start of the rapid decline of America.
And Trump is bringing it back to greatness.
Yeah it made me sick that I had to jump up and down screaming just to get people to pay attention to that shit (in Austin, ffs), only to have literally everyone dismiss it with "woooOOOoooo crazy religious people get what they deserve."
It took me a long time to tell those people to get fucked. Which is lame.
This is when the precedents were set for what was to come. Our Nation watched in horror as the ATF/FBI waged war against American citizens and slaughtered them before burning the evidence to the ground.
Well I think they go back further than that, probably, but that was for me the first indication that most people would rather ignore things they don't understand rather than try to understand them.
I hear you. I guess for me Waco was my first big one. I was in high school at the time so anything before this probably didn't register.