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Radaghast's avatar

Is the leadership of (the pro-democracy side of) America so broken that all they can think of doing is to bleat about GOTV? Voting in big number is all they got? Why does it seem nothing can be said or done to counter these ever-more-fascist calls from Flynn, Trump, Johnson, and others on the MAGA side? We can’t even seem to protect our Postal Service, let alone our whole democracy.

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Jeanne Schapp's avatar

This is so real and chilling; I lived in Munich (2 yrs) & Frankfurt (3yrs) & visited Berlin a lot (my husband grew up there) -- and one exhibit in Berlin has really stayed with me. It showed the Nazi laws instituted in the 30's, with horrific consequences, with photos of people evicted from their homes and neighbors rifling through their belongings -- and another exhibit about out how the local police were co-opted to arrest people & do the Nazi's bidding. It seemed to be no problem getting the police to step in line. Another poignant moment was seeing the prison cell where Pastor Martin Niemoeller was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. ("First they came for the Socialists, but I was not a Socialist...[...] and then they came for me." -- actually, first they came for the LGBTQ community). Whew, this is all too real.

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