Of all the stupid shit I have created over the years, this half-assed meme hit a nerve. You can attack Republicans. You can attack Democrats. You can attack Communists and you can attack Nazis. But, when you start to point the finger at the mirror, and suggest that something like the American appetite might be responsible for bad, you hit something unsettling.
Ron DeSantis talks about wanting to make Western History a required course in higher education. He is wasting his time; Americans have a grandiose sense of their place in the world already. Each and every American, from their first Fourth of July, feels that they stand at the vanguard of Democracy. No matter how many decades pass, I think we look at old pictures of WWII soldiers and feel we see a piece of ourselves. And I think a lot of us have this unfaltering sense that the world owes us something.
Now, reach into your pocket or across your desk or whatever and pick up your smart phone. Wow! That technology is the stuff of dreams. Ask yourself, Where was it made? Who made it?
Try to put yourself as an American and as an individual in perspective. Blow that perspective way up, let your mind wander across the globe to all these places where the magic things come from. That’s all I am trying to do with these memes.
We live and breath Western History every single day of our lives, Mr. DeSantis. Americans need to wake up and see where the rest of the world stands.