As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.
Not sure I’ve heard that version of the slogan exactly that way - drain the still somewhat clear water so that all that is left is scum.
Watched a video recently where when making the California aqueducts they drained some lakes and the resulting silt clouds were some horribly destructive and dangerous dust clouds.
As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.
Not sure I’ve heard that version of the slogan exactly that way - drain the still somewhat clear water so that all that is left is scum.
Watched a video recently where when making the California aqueducts they drained some lakes and the resulting silt clouds were some horribly destructive and dangerous dust clouds.