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US Military indoctrinates a young man into a fascist cult.
Man matures, exits the military, shows genuine remorse, joins anti-war groups and becomes an activist in opposition to the US military's fascist agenda, and then campaigns for high office on these anti-imperialist principles.
The sitting Senator and sitting Governor call him a fascist, while continuing to defend the very military that enlisted and promoted him while he had the tattoo.
Really makes you think.
Most of these people who are still stuck on the tattoo can't believe that you aren't born with the knowledge innately of what Nazi iconography is.
I, as someone from a rural red distruct, can honestly say we did not spend much time on WW2 in school. Nazis were bad, atom bomb was bad, einstein was super smart. That was about it.
We didn't go over what brain drain is or why it would happen (it's happening now)
We didn't go over that during the era of WW2 that segregation was written into and being written into law (Jim Crow), and that the Nazis themselves learned from how we Americans wrote our cruelty into law, sometimes even being abhored at our level of cruelty.
And I haven't watched many movies. Everyone points to the "are we the baddies" meme, and to someone who is not aware, it could just be a symbol that was used in place of a swastika. I, personally, didn't know it was a totenkopf, or that word, until this controversy. To someone who doesn't have that knowledge, it's the equivalent of a decepticon symbol. Are the people that put that on their cars actually secret cybertronians?
People who are still hanging onto this don't believe people can change nor do they understand that what might be considered common knowledge online is certainly not known by every person. And most of these people seem to be authoritarian supporters, left, center, and right.
Most of these people promoting the "secret Nazi" idea also didn't know what a SS totenkopf was before the story broke. It's an obscure symbol that looks like a lot of common symbols, not a swastika.
On the topic of bad history schooling, I don't think my high school required history classes even made it to WW2. I feel like we covered the period from the pilgrims to the Civil War year after year though.
I mean, the joke of the Platner race is how much of the national media conversation probably never makes it to the average Maine voting household.