24 years ago... 9/11 - Compared to today's 'event'
Even though W was President, we had a collective sense of "we're in this together"... was it because the bad guys were not from this country? Was it because they had brown skin or had fundamentalist religious ideals?
Was it because the victims were multiplied and their religious/political alignment was unknown, so they stood for All of US...?
Here we are, on the eve of 9/11/25 with something happening to ONE individual and people are losing their goddamn minds.
They don't even have a suspect in custody (correct me if I am wrong, I don't have cable news) and the Republicans are pointing fingers at the "libruls" and the Left is divided (as usual) some saying ALL violence is wrong, some saying he deserved what he got.
I don't necessarily have a direction with this post, just noticing the difference in the collective landscape. And while I am having trouble personally finding any empathy in my own mind, I understand that what happened isn't okay.
It just seems like we're a long way from any kind of unity, maybe further than ever. This might be our "assasination of Ferdinand" that started WW1, but on our own soil. It's gonna get worse before it gets better... 