Josh Johnson

Because that still feels distant and foreign.

What's happening now, and I've seen some other people online say it, it's like what's happening now is way closer to like slave patrols.

You know, it's way closer to like,

well, we got to make sure this person didn't escape.

So we're going to go door to door.

We're going to ask people for their papers.

If you get involved, you are jeopardizing or you are obstructing a legal investigation

All these excuses have been used before.

And so I think that you can't just treat it like everything's going to go away.

We're very good at doing that.

We even do that with our war.

War is a thing that we export.

It's not something that happens here.

And I think that you go back to some of the first battles of the Civil War, those people had never seen war before.

And the people in the town, I mean.

So there are instances where there were recorded instances of people from the town knowing where a battle was going to be

And going out and having a picnic at the top of a hill and watching it because they don't think it's they don't know what it is.

They don't understand.

They don't think it's real.

Then when they see like the horror of war now, now it's it's hit home.