it's probably fading now as that generation of Kennedys recedes into history but when I was growing up the Kennedy Curse - Rosemary (the lobotomized one), Chappaquiddick, etc in addition to JFK and RFK, and eventually JFK Jr.'s plane crash - was something probably a great majority of Americans still had at least some familiarity with
Heavy day, had a few mushrooms and everyone went home or to bed
Biden’s been unlucky with mortality of family. It’s inescapable, even if irrelevant in day to day life, that the times create vistas where “he sacrificed them like Dugin did with his own daughter“ and “whatabout Pedo fuckin Pete, Ukraine, laptops?” are distractions. On and on
Stating the obvious but subtle distinction is Britons have a hard time imagining firearms cultures and the vast spacial reality of America. It’s beyond conceptual analysis and many can’t even recall the height of the Troubles, ducking into certain pubs wondering if tonight was the night. We can’t picture the scope of your govt, the array of area centres which have military presences. Guns can be seen as exotic. They hold no practical worth outside of agriculture, criminality, sports shooting (wicked blast!) and law enforcement. 99.99% of people never go near one, so to imagine a single, trained, driven man taking out a president with so much yet to come, the practicalities are prob interpreted differently
Assassinations are one thing but get your point about spiralling influence. Sandy Hook’s attraction to psychos, encouraged and led on by A Jones et al, is distilled grimness in a long winding path of madness, plus good exploitation $’s too. People being phoned after losing kids in such unimaginable circumstances, who then can’t grieve fully? Jfc
Remember Columbine clearly, being your side of the pond at the time and it was one of a few events which produced significant collective psychological shifts. Usual suspects of Waco‘s full media scrum, Oklahoma, expansion of preppers, 9/11. Equally, we can’t imagine a president in an open top car being hit by a team of shooters, a set up with rogue elements surfacing and a handover of power. It’s why I’m surprised no-one else has been done since but no cctv culture of surveillance in 1963 beyond the usual
JFK book market with supposedly fresh analysis is one big grift. No-one really knows if Kennedy was going to withdraw from Vietnam, if Cubans, mafia or agency black operations moved against him or why. The value in the subject is where its changed and led worldviews into fields which can’t be influenced beyond collective psychosis