We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

[nadinbrzezinski]

57. It's not about fomenting change

or not.

What you are seeing is the classic denial I heard from many a refugee. Most people do not want to believe things can be that bad, until well, shit they are fully undeniable. It is human nature.

As one put it to me, paraphrase, as part of the ethnic cleansing, "who could believe they were actually killing people?"

This is a common patter in every country around the world. Some acts or events are so outside of the normal course of events that they become plain out impossible to believe. We know of this from Holocaust survivors and the Germans themselves, but it is hardly limited to the "good war."

The US, well read the years before the hot civil war. Even in the midst of the Kansas Little War, people were still in denial this could come to pass in the US.