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BushOut06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:27 PM Original message |
I think many Americans would be quite content to live in a fascist country |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. well, since we already do live in a fascist country... |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have been thinking this for a while. As long as no one interferes |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. maxsolomon Please define "Fascist Country". |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Goes without saying, since many Americans are fascists. |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. ... and their own personal safety or freedom isn't threatened ... |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. Me thinks many tens of millions of Amurikans are quite content |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. Just don't fuck with football or Amerikan Idle. I know how to be a good German. |
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progpen (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Exactly. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. About 24%, apparently. nt |
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Wiley50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well, at least the trains will run on time |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Except Amtrak is never on time because it's been defunded for years. nt |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 09:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. German Trains STILL Run On Time |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
10. But eventually Hitler put a bullet through his head. |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 06:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I wonder how many generations it will take |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. and that has always baffled me, |
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qdemn7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Gullible people? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
13. It always seems like a good deal until they send their thugs for *you*. |
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NoAmericanTaliban (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. I feel like I live in a fascist country today |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. It's like joining the MAFIA -- eventually they'll ask you to participate-- |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
19. V concurs. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. Sadly, I think many liberals would be just as happy to do so |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. "All politics is local" - Tip O'Neill |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. That does NOT make them "safe".. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-22-07 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. I think massive IGNORANCE is to blame. This was by design, of course. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 08:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
36. BINGO. . . perhaps if NCLB had included Civics tests |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
25. Content? No. Resigned, Maybe. |
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Blashyrkh (816 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
26. Quite content? By the end, the populace with be screaming for the chains to be put on tighter. |
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oscarmitre (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 04:33 AM Response to Original message |
27. Not just in America |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 04:42 AM Response to Original message |
28. Link? |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 05:05 AM Response to Original message |
29. "A lot of people are aching for an Ayatollah" - Arthur Miller |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
30. I tend to agree with this statement . . . |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
31. My wife and I spent the night in DC over the weekend |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 06:08 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Did you want to |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 08:13 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. We were appalled |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
33. i need that as a bumpersticker. what a concept. maybe |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
35. They are too far from it to understand that they will not be "safe" |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-23-07 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
37. I think many Americans are quite content living in a fascist country |
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