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I'm having trouble distinguishing Germany 1933 from America 2021. The countless similarities should come as no surprise to anyone who knows what happened in Germany in that era, and has been paying attention to our plunge into hell in recent years.
I'm almost convinced that American democracy is on its death bed. And it may be a drawn out death that will take place during and after the next two elections. The Democrats, who seemingly hold all the levers of power, appear to be incapable of preventing it. -- Not because of incompetence, but because of the viciousness of the Republican onslaught, and the fact that not enough people are fully aware of the peril.
I hope I'm wrong about this and some kind of "salvation" is at hand. But if it is, I'm damned if I can see it.
HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)It will be full of people going to their deaths saying we can resist
but it wouldnt be the nice thing to do
or sorry, but we dont have a permit to leave
Be vicious back.
Look, identify ever actor in this death of American democracy, it doesnt matter what their role is
a political party, a non-profit group, a financier of this, etc.
When youre doing that, with every actor identified, youve identified someone or some group worthy of marginalization and political, non-violent, but destruction and discrediting.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)Something that maybe able to be fixed but which will challenge "liberal thought".
The right uses liberalism against liberalism. Part of the ideology is "empiricism" meaning that knowledge is typically acquired by testing. The best ideas will usually end up at the "top" or accepted as what should be. The underlying assumption is that discussion, debate, and decisions will be had in "good faith" and the ideas that persuade people most will be adopted.
That is not how the right does things. They use the concepts and cry "foul" when their ideas are called out for being destructive, discriminatory, etc... (which they are). When they cry foul, liberals tend to react to the attack on their "objectivity" by ... listening and giving the right a chance to explain.
The right doesn't explain. They cheat. They cheat, then they cheat some more. They only use the concepts of "free speech", "tolerance", and "market place of ideas" as entry points to try to frame the narrative.
Ian Danskin says it better than I can.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)I seen to many similarities.
I also hope I am wrong!
cynical_idealist
(357 posts)How can we help some of the brainwashed (r) masses pop the bubble they are stuck in
and see what's real?
We need a vast movement of progressive/liberal reality hackers to
steer people back to reasonable understanding of life.
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)perfection and seek ways to avoid offending the bad guys
ShazamIam
(2,559 posts)democracy and think they, the so called news people will be exempt from the authoritarians.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)...is to do away with political Parties and begin anew.
Such an alien idea.
The battle is so huge it cannot be fought by division, but only by uniting.
Irish_Dem
(45,640 posts)It is the ruthless sociopath party that needs to end.