
What was left of American Democracy is dismantled as we speak. Do the Epstein files really matter anymore? Nobody gives a shit. Trump has almost certainly sexually abused minors. Do you think his followers will care at all if there is proof? Even if he is dethroned, won’t some other MAGA dipshit just take the wheel?
Auschwitz became a museum because Auschwitz survivors made sure it was. Survivors fought to preserve it and created what we see today. Otherwise it would long have been paved. It’s a place to remember the victims but also the atrocities commited there.
It’s not so much a tourist attraction, rather a monument to warn about fascism. It’s very different to visit than to just read about it in a book. Also, it’s not for-profit. It’s publicly funded.