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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Picture Shows Bernie Sanders Being Sent To A Gas Chamber By A Smiling Donald Trump!!! Outrageous. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)61. Never Forget.
In an important sense, his political education was now nearly complete. Hed traveled from a three-and-a-half-room apartment in Flatbush and the close interdependency of a family of first- and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants who showed their children snapshots of relatives murdered by the Nazis, to Chicago in the 1960s and the disillusioning discovery of institutional complicity in racism and war. Hed gone back to New York and personal turmoil and then had found release into self-sufficiency and social withdrawal in rural Vermont, where utopianism, protest, and anti-establishment lifestyles and practical politics all huddled together inside the Liberty Union tent, which, though it turned out to be rather fragile cover against the prevailing winds of 1970s party politics in Vermont, nevertheless taught Sanders that he had valuable skills as an organizer and as a public speaker and that at least one medium, television, found him extremely attractive.
-- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/
-- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/
The person who created that, those who spread that to build hatred, and those who agree with its message are the worst people on earth.
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Picture Shows Bernie Sanders Being Sent To A Gas Chamber By A Smiling Donald Trump!!! Outrageous. [View all]
imagine2015
Mar 2016
OP
No. We need to know and see just how racist and dangerous some Trump supporters are.
imagine2015
Mar 2016
#7
You should feel sick to your stomach--you should also be angry at the person who created it.
bklyncowgirl
Mar 2016
#43
There are many good reasons to post this information here and all over so that people can
imagine2015
Mar 2016
#16
I disagree. It's time to address antisemitism. It's a form of bigotry that's become commonplace.
grossproffit
Mar 2016
#46
I've seen a few posts on antisemitism here that have quickly sunk to the bottom.
grossproffit
Mar 2016
#50
Hard to believe all the Bernie supporters who would take a chance having this guy become
kerry-is-my-prez
Mar 2016
#22
I could see Trump doing this with Muslims and Mexicans. Then, who knows who would be next?
kerry-is-my-prez
Mar 2016
#25
Can any single human being understand what Bernie is feeling right now.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2016
#24
There's antisemitism all over the place and not just from Trump or HRC supporters.
grossproffit
Mar 2016
#36
I asked about speeches directly addressing antisemitism that's prevalent today.
grossproffit
Mar 2016
#64
Might be a "Touchy Subject" for the first Jew running for President of this country
FreakinDJ
Mar 2016
#65
Sadly, it's not only his supporters who are antisemetic. It's rampant on social media and
grossproffit
Mar 2016
#44
If that doesn't decimate the Jewish vote for Republicans for all time, I don't know what will.
Vinca
Mar 2016
#42
NOTE: Trump didn't retweet that pic. Still, retweeting anything from "WhiteGenocide" is bad enough.
reformist2
Mar 2016
#57
Trump supporter at a rally telling protesters, "Go to Auschwitz. Go to fucking Auschwitz."
imagine2015
Mar 2016
#74