The unstoppable urge to exclaim "Aha!" and point out how famously the comfortable and well-off have been misled by the author might keep one from seeing the big

The unstoppable urge to exclaim "Aha!" and point out how famously the comfortable and well-off have been misled by the author might keep one from seeing the big picture. Nobody is likening the current state of the US to the USSR of 1937-38 mass executions fame as is evident if one reads the article. The parallels that are being drawn are all too familiar to my family and reflect attitudes from the latter half of the 20th century that have remained in the cultures of most post-soviet states. The tremendous pull to value appearance over substance is ever present in the current U.S. administration.