This. So much this.

[Initech]

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Now that is Powerfull!!!!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Very... thanks for sharing.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Needs to be on the front Page abovd the fold!

[Glorfindel]

3. Oh, hell yes!

Spread it far and wide. Trump is whale shit!

[Initech]

4. Our grandparents who fought in WWII are rolling in their graves right now.

[pazzyanne]

11. You are right.

Some of us have fathers that fought in WWII and grandfathers who fought in WWI. Those of us who have friends and relatives who fought in Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan, and are serving as peace keepers in many corners of the world today. All fought not just for the freedom of the US of A, but to allow freedom to grow around the world. And I know that my Dad and Grandpa would be rolling in their graves over what is going on right now. Today is a day to honor those who lost their lives to help preserve that freedom. We need to be aware of the greater picture and an expanded idea of freedom. Freedom is worth protecting at all cost, and those who do not recognize that our freedom is in jeopardy are acting like ostriches.

[panfluteman]

30. Regarding the Tiger and the Lion...

I see, glasshopper!

[world wide wally]

6. My Father fought against fascists in WWII

I have been saying this since the fucking campaign started.
Maybe the picture gives this more impact.

[Mountain Mule]

7. My Dad was career military and fought in 3 wars for our Country

WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

I thank God that he is not alive to see what evil tRump has wrought.

[sdfernando]

32. My Dad as well

We still have him but I know not for much longer.

[smirkymonkey]

8. K&R

[keithbvadu2]

9. Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!

[Initech]

12. The United States army: the original Antifa!

[marieo1]

10. minngal

How did it happen? Unbelievable and no one on the right will even try to stop this man. There used to be a lot of really decent people in the 'other party'. What happened to them? Why will they put up with such nonsense and still call themselves Christians!!

[onecent]

13. WOW this is powerful.....

[Tribalceltic]

14. Kick and Recomend and Thank you!

Trump is not the entire problem.. his supporters are!

[Prof.Higgins]

15. My father was a highly decorated Marine in WW II, and I am a Vietnam Vet.

However, my super-patriotic father was also an enthusiastic supporter of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his diabolical ilk in the House Un-American Activities Committee, Trumpesque demagogues all. They destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Americans, and even our most brilliant playwright of the postwar era, Arthur Miller, was only saved from being silenced after Marilyn Monroe went to Washington and buttered up these malevolent politicians, taking smiling photos with them.

My father, a leader in our state's American Legion, adamantly supported the racial segregation of our entire military throughout WW2 as well our major sports leagues. He was also virulently homophobic, hated "Wetbacks", and asians of any nationality. In particular, he was incensed that the Japanese-American families who FDR had thrown into internment camps had been released and, even worse in his eyes, eventually compensated for their stolen property.

The preponderance of Republican and racist Southern Democrats in Congress in the aftermath of WW II provides an abundance of historical evidence that my father attitudes were not out of the mainstream. When, the summer after high school graduation, I complained of the idiocy that the California Institute of Technology required me to sign the national loyalty oath (never been a member of subversive organization, etc.) simply for a summer job as an agronomy dept. aide, he berated me more harshly than for any other misdeeds in my young life. Readers of 'Catch-22' will recall Heller's satirical bullseye with the administrative officers' Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade, a fierce competition consisting of signing more loyalty oaths than others in order to show off the "greatest" patriotic devotion.

Obviously, my point here is that my father would disapprove your using a photo of him or one of his brothers-in-arms who, likely as not, would be Trump supporters along with my dad. I reckon it's not a sound strategy to combat Trump's malicious propaganda lies with dubious statements like this one being attributed to WWII soldiers who are not alive to state whether they concur with the claim that Trump speaks like Hitler.

I apologize in advance for both disagreeing and being disagreeable. All the same, as a lifelong progressive this is one of those rare times that I must beg to differ with some folks in this forum, for whom I hold the deepest respect and warmest regards.

[Steven Maurer]

16. This is the paradox of the past

One of the major supports for the "progressive liberalism" we lost under FDR was southern racism. Even unions in the 1950s - which are so lauded on the DU - were unabashedly racist, and except for the Wobblies, not open to blacks or women. Indeed, it was the gradual reform of unions in the 1960s to help all workers, that drove the wedge that Reagan exploited to get the votes of the so-called "Reagan Democrats". They chose racism over their own economic self-interest.

Now these people are suffering and committing suicide while liberal states which fed egalitarianism and pluralism are suffering from overgrowth due to too much money. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.

[Prof.Higgins]

18. You've made a cogent point here about historical paradoxes, Steven Maurer. n/t

[VOX]

29. Most astute. And beautifully explained.

Nicely communicated.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Loyalty oaths

Oath of Allegiance - Pre and post 1934
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fuehrer-oath

(before August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will at all times loyally and honestly
serve my people and country
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

The Fuehrer Oath
(effective August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler,
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht,
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

[USALiberal]

35. Great post! Sometimes we project what we want to believe about the past. nt

[H2O Man]

17. Rec #101

[Leith]

19. Damn Right

wtf is wrong with rethugs?

[saidsimplesimon]

20. Betrayal is a bitter pill

I can't swallow it and I'm not going to take it, or fake it.

Thank you to all those who served the goal of a peaceful, just world. For the times they are a changin

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[hay rick]

21. If I had voted for Trump it would have been a deliberate act of treason.

Avoiding acts of treason is not too high a standard to expect from anyone...friends, relatives, or strangers.

[amuse bouche]

22. Truth

[Cha]

24. Damn that's DEAD ON! I salute

those who gave their lives to stop the hitler monster from taking over.

A tragedy that brainwashed America Suckers with Russia's assistance got this clone rigged in.

[magicarpet]

25. trDump supporters are the enablers...

..... of creeping Fascism taking root in America, they welcome it with open arms and celebrate it's existence.

[Achilleaze]

26. .

[BlueJac]

27. K&R 10000 times

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

28. K&R 420k

[panfluteman]

31. But Hitler was a Damn Foreigner, an F-ing Kraut...

And Twitler is homegrown, and one of us, say the Trumpies. And to them, that makes all the difference, I suppose. I wonder if they are even aware of his German ancestry, so superficial is their knowledge and understanding. But whatever Trump's ancestry may be, that's not the point. We have had many fine public servants of German descent. He's a pathological liar, and a dangerous demagogue, just like his predecessor and role model from WWII. Perhaps the brainwashed evangelicals who form such an important part of Trump's power base would understand things better if I put it this way: Sometimes ravenous wolves do indeed come in sheep's clothing!

An excellent post, by the way - the poster, by not being explicit, really makes one think... One must accept that history has a great sense of irony when it tests us.

[apkhgp]

33. Betrayal

We were taken down on one dark day
Lined up against a wall and shot in the back
Our blood is on their hands
They are forever marked by their homicidal siege

[liberalnarb]

34. My grandfather was shot 3 different times in WW2. He survived and is still kicking it today.

He's a staunch Democrat, like my late Grandmother.

[Uncle Joe]

36. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Initech

[Delphinus]

37. Powerful.

Thank you.