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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 52, and 3rd gen DC. I've heard my parent's talk about how scary things were after JFK, RFK and MLK assignations, followed by Nixon. I remember the '72 election and feeling very anti-Nixon (2nd grade, whatever). And to have the National Guard posted in cities and aggressively trying to quell anti-war protests and the civil rights movement was pure ugliness.

So is this worse? It feels worse to me. But I'm an adult, and a parent. And we live in a different world where isolationism is no longer an option. And xenophobia and stoking the fires of fear and hatred of the "other" has even more dire ramifications than it did in the 1930's. I know that my 80 year old mom thinks it's worse. She was young during WWII, but remembers it and remembers the hardships and the fear. And the cold war that followed. She went to the MLK rally. And JFK's funeral procession. And she tells me about taking us kids to the playground in DC while the National Guard was on the street corners.

But this? Seven days in and gov't agencies are under gag orders, the media is declared the enemy, there is a propaganda machine being put in place, an isolationist policy being set up, talk of torture reinstated, and talk of feds going into a major city (Chicago) to clean it up? What does that even mean?

I'm scared. [/quote]

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