Moussolini, Hitler, Stalin...

[walldude]

The worst governments in history. What was the first move by those "leaders" in their quest to solidify their power?


Dismantle the trade unions.

Let me say that again... The first move of most notorious criminal leaders in history is to DISMANTLE THE TRADE UNIONS.


Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

If it is at all humanly possible I will be in Madison on Saturday.

[LiberalEsto]

1. +10,000

I can't rec this enough

Unfortunately the middle-of-the-road people, the independent voters, the ones who really need to read this, aren't going to see it.

I wish the unions could put this into newspaper ads. But chances are the corporate-controlled newspapers will refuse to run them.

[walldude]

2. Yeah I'm split on whether Obama should go to Madison

but we really need the freakin press there, CNN did a bit last night and FOX is covering more than anyone else but they are lying about the whole thing. People all over the world are getting better coverage of this than we are.

How sad is it when some guy in Guatemala knows more about what is happening in Wisconsin than our own people...

[deacon]

3. Big kick. Dem leaders and Obama need to get out of the posturing funk. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

4. You need to start adding Paul Bremer to that list.

Remember, that was one of his first orders when the piece of shit bush put him in charge of Iraq.

[yodermon]

5. SHHH. Those 3 committed genocide, so any comparison to them necessarily means

that you are accusing <x> of planning to do the same.

Genocide/mass murder isn't the *endpoint* of fascism: it's the *only* point of fascism.

Or so I've read by some around here.

[walldude]

6. Well considering that they are going after the unions

and they are going after the Muslims.. then I think this applies:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.


Anyone who thinks that the Republicans wouldn't expel every single Muslim from America if they could is sadly mistaken. And once they are gone, the "liberals" are next.

Not sure why with Wisconsin and Peter King's insanity people can't see this.

[walldude]

7. kicking because I can.