no offense but i need everyone to stop saying that āwe survivedā bad presidents before. like, i get it, the countryĀ has weathered people like andrew jackson and ronald reagan and will probably weather trump. but when you sayĀ āwe survivedā andrew jackson? tell that to the 4000 (of 16000) cherokee who died on the trail of tears.Ā āwe survivedā ronald reagan? tell that to the 650,000 americans who have died of aidsā a national health crisis which reagan refused to even recognize?Ā
you know whoĀ āsurvivedā presidents like trump? people who never had to be afraid of them in the first place.Ā
āWe survived.ā We being a word that, used here, means āindividual people who did not die, as many other people individually did; has no bearing on the collective āweā used to describe marginalized communities decimated by genocide, disease, poverty, etc.ā
