It feels like 1972.
Remember the great oil crisis where Americans were rationing gas and there were long lines at the pump?
There were odd-even days for license plates to try and manage those long lines.
Then there was the draft. Americans were still getting drafted to fight in the illegal war in Vietnam. Nixon ended the draft in June but by then over 58,000 (and still counting) Americans were killed in Vietnam.
Flash forward. 2026.
We are in another illegal war. The price of oil is skyrocketing and prices at the pump are climbing daily. We haven't started rationing... yet.
As for the draft, Trump is considering bringing it back as things continue to get out of control in the middle east and here at home. Like the draft in 1972, wealthy Americans will dodge it with fake deferments if it comes to pass this year.
Memes like #Draft Barron Trump are popping up on the internet in increasing numbers as rattled Americans confront the idea of sending ground troops to the cauldron in the middle east.
So, who really profits from this illegal war?
Just like the illegal war in Vietnam, defense contractors are literally making a killing. Take the Trump boys, Eric and Don Jr., for example. They're both heavily invested in producing drones with fat government contracts thanks to daddy.
In 1972 Richard Nixon was re-elected president.
In 2025 Donald Trump was re-elected.
The biggest scandal to ever hit the presidency happened in June of 1972 when there was a break in at the DNC headquarters. Later the incident became known as the Watergate scandal.
That scandal paled beside Trump's ongoing coverup of the Epstein files. A president protecting a pedophile buddy has done everything he could to make the scandal go away (including arbitrarily starting a war in the middle east) but it continues to haunt him.
As it Stands, I've heard that history often repeats itself when we don't learn our lesson the first time. It looks like that's a fact today.
