kentuck (78,005 posts)
America can't handle the truth.
This sonuvabitch knows exactly what he is doing.
The sheep look at these times as simple politics. They do not see that they are being led to the slaughter. They think it is nothing more than Democrat vs Republican. But that is the least of it.
It is difficult to find a time in history when our country was under such a threat. Maybe when the British burned our Capitol?
I remember Watergate very well. The threat we are presently under is much, much worse, in my opinion. Our institutions, such as a free press and honest elections, are threatened from external sources. We have a President-elect that has refused to show his tax returns or to be transparent in any way. We do not know who he is allied with?
The media and the politicians in Washington are slow to recognize what is happening to our country. By the time they see the truth, it may be too late?
Mayday! Mayday! Wake up America! You are very close to the slaughter.
Skittles (110,542 posts)
1. I'll say it again
Trump voters have ZERO CLUE exactly what they have done, helping Russia and the FBI install this con man into the presidency
We also have ZERO EVIDENCE.
kentuck (78,005 posts)
2. They are a danger to themselves.
Not someone you would want to be in a foxhole with, for sure.
Like you arrogant ****ers would ever be get that close to being dirty or in danger.
Cosmocat (8,805 posts)
3. We are now an emergent, authoritarian, fascist
State. People are going to start waking up to that.
GliderGuider (19,726 posts)
5. Deeply saddening.
Many of us, both outside and inside the US, noticed the direction things were going throughout the last decade, and tried to raise the alarm. We were consistently rebuked - even here on DU - and called doomsayers, Cassandras and Nervous Nellies. We have been lectured for our failure of comprehension, and told that if we thought the USA was becoming a fascist police state, or an oligarchy, or a plutocracy, that we had no idea what fascism, police states or oligarchy really are.
Well, they're here...
The fact that the world has bumped into the Limits to Growth that were forecast in that infamous, eponymous book in 1972, has fueled the worldwide rise of authoritarianism in previously liberal societies - to such an extent that Justin Trudeau of Canada has been called the last progressive leader of a major nation still standing (Angela Merkel, the only other candidate for that sorry title, self-identifies as a conservative.)
Speaking from abroad, [you shouldn't do that to women -- SSG SB] I will say that it's not just America that's under threat. The entire world is undergoing convulsions of conservatism that, while they may be less acute than the last such paroxysm in 1936, are far more likely to be permanent. It's ironic that American Republicans deny global climate change while they are themselves evidence of a parallel and equally threatening change in the human climate of the planet. It's even more ironic that both types of climate change can be traced back to the same roots in our global culture of endless growth.
It's far too late for a Mayday, the wheelhouse has gone under. In any event, since we are all on this ship there is nobody "out there" to sail to our rescue.
Sauve qui peut.
TRANSLATION: "I read an obscure book 30 years ago and since nobody else read it I get to pretend it's my special knowledge that makes me smarter than everyone else so I lord it over them and allow it to feed my entire worldview.
"And here's some French to prove how smart I am."
Since you're feeling all 1936-ish I wonder how many of you Proglodytes would support...
It must be the first duty of every Citizen to carry out intellectual or physical work. Individual activity must not be harmful to the public interest and must be pursued within the framework of the community and for the general good.
We therefore demand:
The abolition of all income obtained without labor or effort, i.e. breaking the Servitude of Interest.
In view of the tremendous sacrifices in property and blood demanded of the nation by every war, personal gain from the war must be termed a crime against the nation. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
We demand the nationalization of all enterprises (already) converted into corporations (trusts).
We demand profit-sharing in large enterprises.
We demand the large-scale development of old-age pension schemes.
We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle class; the immediate communalization of the large department stores, which are to be leased at low rates to small tradesmen. We demand the most careful consideration for the owners of small businesses in orders placed by national, state, or community authorities.
We demand land reform in accordance with our national needs and a law for expropriation without compensation of land for public purposes. Abolition of ground rent and prevention of all speculation in land.
We demand ruthless battle against those who harm the common good by their activities. Persons committing base crimes against the People, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished by death without regard to religion or race.
We demand the replacement of Roman Law, which serves a materialistic World Order
In order to make higher education – and thereby entry into leading positions – available to every able and industrious citizen, the State must provide a thorough restructuring of our entire public educational system. The courses of study at all educational institutions are to be adjusted to meet the requirements of practical life. Understanding of the concept of the State must be achieved through the schools (teaching of civics) at the earliest age at which it can be grasped. We demand the education at the public expense of specially gifted children of poor parents, without regard to the latters’ position or occupation.
The State must raise the level of national health by means of mother-and-child care, the banning of juvenile labor, achievements of physical fitness through legislation for compulsory gymnastics and sports, and maximum support for all organizations providing physical training for young people.
We demand the abolition of hireling troops
We demand laws to fight against deliberate political lies and their dissemination by the press. In order to make it possible to create a liberal press.
any financial participation in media or influence on such a paper is to be forbidden by law to non-citizens and the penalty for any breach of this law will be the closing of the newspaper in question, as well as the immediate expulsion those involved.
Newspapers which violate the public interest are to be banned. We demand laws against trends in art and literature which have a destructive effect on our national life, and the suppression of performances that offend against the above requirements.
We demand freedom from all religious denominations, provided that they do not endanger the existence of the State or offend the concepts of decency and morality.
The Party as such stands for positive government, without associating itself with any particular group. It fights against the materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a permanent revival of our nation can be achieved only from within, on the basis of: Public Interest before Private Interest.
To carry out all the above we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State. Unquestioned authority by the political central Parliament over the entire Reich and over its organizations in general. The establishment of trade and professional organizations to enforce the basic laws in the individual states.http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028433033
