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We are dangerously close to this happening (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2019 OP
God forbid, Corgigal Jun 2019 #1
we can not let Monster DONALD TRUMP do this to us. trueblue2007 Jun 2019 #2
The raids were postponed for just 2 weeks. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #3
Seen recently; A HERETIC I AM Jun 2019 #4
Truth SHRED Jun 2019 #11
Just learned about this on Friday, relating to the census question about citizenship. no_hypocrisy Jun 2019 #5
Any pogrom is evil. And this is surely a pogrom. TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 #6
Underground railroad part ii RT Atlanta Jun 2019 #7
I just thought... yeah, I'd hide Latinx's from American nazis... DemocracyMouse Jun 2019 #18
He's following the playbook! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2019 #8
Anne was 13 years old when she wrote that Skittles Jun 2019 #9
I remember when movies depicted Nazis as ignoring the Geneva convention dem4decades Jun 2019 #10
Tragically True colsohlibgal Jun 2019 #12
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Initech Jun 2019 #13
The Republicans didn't forget history Kaiserguy Jun 2019 #14
That is amazing... kentuck Jun 2019 #15
My daughters went to the Anne Frank elementary school DFW Jun 2019 #16
As a Latin American, I have to say this... natstephen Jun 2019 #17
I hear you loud and clear! DemocracyMouse Jun 2019 #19
Until we have the dialog about how this nation was founded on PatrickforO Jun 2019 #20
The answer about "despising" when no such word came out of my mouth... natstephen Jun 2019 #21
Yeah right, I know. warmfeet Jun 2019 #22
I know SHRED Jun 2019 #23

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
1. God forbid,
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 04:30 PM
Jun 2019

Trump gets re-elected.

I'm fearful for all, but I want my Puerto Rican son-in-law near us old white people.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,317 posts)
4. Seen recently;
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 04:42 PM
Jun 2019

America is where Germany was in 1933, where 1 third of the population hates and wants to do away with another third while the last third watches.

no_hypocrisy

(45,771 posts)
5. Just learned about this on Friday, relating to the census question about citizenship.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 04:43 PM
Jun 2019

In 1939, the Third Reich ordered a census taken and it included "religion". The census was then used its data to be organized on a Hollerith machine (developed by IBM) and of course, the Nazis knew where every single Jew lived.

One can't be blind or oblivious to the parallels today.

RT Atlanta

(2,517 posts)
7. Underground railroad part ii
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 04:47 PM
Jun 2019

Will be happy to do my part to help folks, but will first take to the streets locked arm in arm, and in love and non-violently, to do what I can to prevent this.

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
18. I just thought... yeah, I'd hide Latinx's from American nazis...
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:30 PM
Jun 2019

Then I realized there's a man nearby from Texas I don't trust. Even his wife, while more friendly, has a racist touch. The man is really strange, socially creepy and just several doors down from us. Since it's a low density area he'd easily observe a family coming and going... My guests would have to be brought in at 3am and hidden, just like Anne Frank.

I could easily imagine that man turning anybody in to a fascist authority.

The potential is very real. Those people are being turned towards their reptile brains little by little. There's dopamine hits for every eruption of hatred.

dem4decades

(11,241 posts)
10. I remember when movies depicted Nazis as ignoring the Geneva convention
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 05:19 PM
Jun 2019

And always asking "Your papers please".

Sadly we're doing the same thing.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
12. Tragically True
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 05:51 PM
Jun 2019

So cruel so sad to see this happening here and about a third of us alright with it. Treating human beings like animals.

I hope we send Twitler packing and demote McConnell in 2020. But my guess is that even if he is trounced Trump will have to be physically removed.....but once he is he will be locked up.

Kaiserguy

(740 posts)
14. The Republicans didn't forget history
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:12 PM
Jun 2019

they are embracing it. To them fascism is a good thing. As long as they are the ones running the show.

DFW

(54,047 posts)
16. My daughters went to the Anne Frank elementary school
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:15 PM
Jun 2019

All the kids learn all about Anne Frank's life there. No one is allowed to forget here.

 

natstephen

(12 posts)
17. As a Latin American, I have to say this...
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:17 PM
Jun 2019

It doesn't matter if the government is Republican or Democrat. Latin Americans are always viewed as second-class citizens, their political decisions are disrespected, their internal affairs are meddled by whoever is in the White House.

As long as Democrats do not take solid steps to break with the imperalist foreign policy of the United States and their sense of ownership over Latin America, it doesn't matter that much if the American president is Republican or Democrat. Both parties have been a disgrace to Latin America.

And refusing to handle this and discuss this without hysteria, name-calling, childish behavior, authoritarian posture is part of the disconnection between Democrats and their base.

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
20. Until we have the dialog about how this nation was founded on
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:34 PM
Jun 2019

slavery and on genocide, we won't become everything we can be. That said, if you despise Democrats as much as you despise Republicans, then why are you here?

 

natstephen

(12 posts)
21. The answer about "despising" when no such word came out of my mouth...
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:37 PM
Jun 2019

... is precisely what I see as the problem here.

I'm here because I believe the Democrats VOTERS are the most reasonable in the US. But if you treat your party as a inquestionable religion, that's halfway to explain why Trump won and you never saw it coming.

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
22. Yeah right, I know.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:57 PM
Jun 2019

If there were only some Constitutional means to draw attention to the illegality of this administration.

Some political, not criminal, process for calling this all to the attention of the American public.

Oh well, I guess such a process does not exist. We will all just have to succumb to the whims of our opposition. They win!

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