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I don't understand why regular people care about this. If it was a conspiracy then some elite was killed by other elites. Conspiracies to kill relatively power
by avgcorrection 3y ago
I don't understand why regular people care about this. If it was a conspiracy then some elite was killed by other elites.
Conspiracies to kill relatively powerless people seems more interesting to me because it's The Man vs. the everyman.
- Mistletoe 3y agoYou wonder why people care if the president of our country was assassinated by some other group?
- avgcorrection 3y agoThat's what I said.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoyou have to remember this "elites vs the rest of us" is not a universal narrative, I wasn't around back then but I get the sense that a significant portion of the population believed that the government was actually doing work on behalf of the people, not in opposition.. "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." wasn't said til 1986
- avgcorrection 3y agoYou weren't around back then but you “get a sense”? This was the Civil rights movement era. But I guess you'll say that normies didn't care about that. > "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." wasn't said til 1986 Yes, we mustn't forget the pioneer of populism and anti-elitism Ronald Reagan.
- hyperhopper 3y agoIt's because many people saw him as fighting for the everyman.
- wheelerof4te 3y agoHe was loved by the people. And he had ambition to deeply change the country. And let us not forget that one famous speech about a certain "conspiracy".
- avgcorrection 3y agoThis was during the Civil rights movement. The March on Washington—involving over 200K people—happened under him. Maybe I'm cherry-picking? But this narrative that he was just swoons loved by the people and everyone got along seems like some rose-tinted glasses.
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