Look to History to Learn About the Dangers in Current Society
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Today, George Santayana’s aphorism is as timely as ever, and something the Trumpers, book banners and COVID deniers would do well to keep in mind.
Google the rise of Hitler and the difference in fatalities in St. Louis and Philadelphia during the 1918 pandemic. A little research will render the tone-deaf assertions of the Republican electorate all the more self-serving, self-defeating and selfish.
Hitler destroyed free elections and banned books, and the masked and socially distanced citizens of St. Louis suffered almost half the fatalities per 100,000 than did the citizens of Philadelphia, which incidentally was the seat of the huge Liberty Bond rallies promoted by Woodrow Wilson, a pandemic denier.
Jeff Hodges
Carmel
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