How GD Stupid and Ungrateful Are We?

We are taking one of the greatest countries in history and destroying it by letting extremist dummies ruin it

B Kean
4 min readSep 25, 2023
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

The glory days are over. We can almost start pretending they never happened. The generation that stormed the beaches in Normandy and hit the islands in the Pacific is now in the history books, except for the last few hanging on for dear life in nursing homes.

The sad thing about these surviving elderly Americans who delivered our country through some of its most trying times is that they can no longer provide us with the lessons needed to appreciate how dangerous and wrong Donald Trump is for America. The Americans today supporting Trump were the ones who slept during high school social studies.

They are the dumbasses who never paid much attention to Aunt Lottie (born in 1900), Uncle Charlie (born in 1918 and a navigator in a B-17 in World War II), or “Gram” (born in 1912) when they told stories about the America they grew up in. They never asked those asked these walking history books questions about the past. There was no intellectual curiosity and zero interest in understanding the nuances and intricacies of how things went from what they were in 1900 to what they are today — the three people I mention here had vacated my physical life by 2005…

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B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.