I know. We forget everything. Iraq's nonexistent WMD isn't a thought in anyone's mind, yet the US military still occupies the country, and no one asks why the f*ck the US is still there.

No one remembered the atrocious Afghan war until the US withdrawal infuriated them because, obviously, Afghans enjoyed the foreign military presence and violent attacks for 19 years.

I'm in the "live with keen awareness" and moved to Australia because the US scares the shit out of me. Australia isn't much better, but it's the only place I could immigrate legally, and it's less violent and volatile.

I've wasted countless hours thinking about the US' collective memory and realized that people chose denial or disinformation, forgetting to remember anything. The propaganda is relentless, and you must anchor yourself, or you'll get swept away in a sea of confusion.

However, anyone who believes the bombing of civilians is a defense and a justifiable response consciously supports fascist empires. Still, the big, bad, scary Trump who would start WWIII and transform the country into a fascist state may terrify voters into choosing the other psychopath, but nothing will change either way. We'll get different shades of hell and justify it if the president acts professionally. We're complicit and spineless.