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How Dictatorships Are Born - NYT op-ed
It could never happen here, right? Until it does!
How Dictatorships Are Born
Roger Cohen OCT. 14, 2016
Just to make his pedigree clear, Donald Trump is now suggesting that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty, in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends, and her donors.”
What was it the Nazis called the Jews? Oh, yes, “rootless parasites,” that’s it. For Stalin they were rootless cosmopolitans.
Just saying.
Societies slide into dictatorship more often than they lurch, one barrier falling at a time. “Just a buffoon,” people say, “and vulgar.” And then it’s too late.
I’ve been reminded in recent weeks of the passage in Fred Uhlman’s remarkable novella, “Reunion,” in which a proud German Jewish physician, twice wounded in World War I, and convinced the Nazis are a “temporary illness,” .................
Roger Cohen OCT. 14, 2016
Just to make his pedigree clear, Donald Trump is now suggesting that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty, in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends, and her donors.”
What was it the Nazis called the Jews? Oh, yes, “rootless parasites,” that’s it. For Stalin they were rootless cosmopolitans.
Just saying.
Societies slide into dictatorship more often than they lurch, one barrier falling at a time. “Just a buffoon,” people say, “and vulgar.” And then it’s too late.
I’ve been reminded in recent weeks of the passage in Fred Uhlman’s remarkable novella, “Reunion,” in which a proud German Jewish physician, twice wounded in World War I, and convinced the Nazis are a “temporary illness,” .................
Trump's Campaign Enlists Commentator He Once Slammed as a Bigot and Hitler "Fan"
Nowadays, the GOP nominee needs every friend he can find.
David Corn Oct. 11, 2016
Nowadays, the GOP nominee needs every friend he can find.
David Corn Oct. 11, 2016
A British Magazine Just Summed Up The U.S. Election Perfectly
“The debasing of American politics.”
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“The debasing of American politics.”
If only Hitler had been a groper!
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Some will say how they react is also an unknown, and spread more fear. We'll go high instead.
Between now and election day the whole world will arrive at the understanding that the orange, paranoid loser has begun channeling Ammon Bundy.
