1967
Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg spoke at an anti-Vietnam War organizing event in Northern Virginia. He said a majority of Americans forget history once it becomes more than three (3) years old.
However, Justice Goldberg said there was one exception to the rule. Was the history-making event emotionally, mentally or physically traumatic? If yes, then Americans remember history.
1963
Today, a majority of Americans who are at least 80 years old remember November 22. We even remember where we were on the day we first learned of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Texas. It was that bad.
2021
Forgetting the traumatic attack on our U.S. Capitol isn’t hard for mass media corporations. Remind voters of the Republican nominee’s attempted coup d’état? Insurrection? Sneak attack? Nope.
So, it is America’s good luck to have Joyce Vance, Scott Dworkin, Dash Dobrofsky and other Substackers of like mind. Their posts provide counterbalance to a corporate media which wants voters to forget history.
The Republican nominee’s attempted coup d’état is easy to forget unless you were in DC at the U.S. Capitol and personally experienced it.
Even if you watched President Trump’s sneak attack unfold during four (4) hours of live TV coverage, it’s easy to forget.
If you weren’t there or you didn’t watch the insurrection on TV, it’s too easy to depend on others to tell you what they believe happened after Trump ordered, “Fight like hell, or you won’t have a government.”
1971
Forgotten?
1972
Forgotten?
Considering the merits of each side in the Presidential campaign, it's mind boggling to think that the legacy media downgrade the prosecutor and ignore, as the supreme court (sic) has so astoundingly done, the sheer criminality of the orange thing. The only possible conclusion: big bucks to the legacy media, all owned, of course, by corporations jonesing for monopoly positions and billionaires...gee, I wonder...could they be in cahoots with, say, The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025?