After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America

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3. POTEMPKIN villages on all fronts.

The SANTAYANA quotation has been repeated endlessly: "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

But recently, somewhere on the internet somebody deigned to differ, said that nobody learns from the past, everybody has to experience stuff for themselves.

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from Google:

AI Overview
A Potemkin village is a false, impressive façade or structure built to conceal a poor or undesirable reality, thereby deceiving viewers into believing the situation is better than it is. The term originates from a legend about Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who allegedly constructed temporary, decorative villages with fake peasants and livestock along the route of Empress Catherine II's 1787 visit to Crimea to hide the region's actual poverty and poor development. The concept has since become a metaphor for any deceptive display, literal or figurative, that creates an illusion of prosperity or success.

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