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mahigan

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6. It Can't Happen Here

Reply to Perseus (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 9, 2020, 01:19 AM

Mar 2020

For many years I have called "It Can't Happen Here" the Great Canadian Mantra. The problem is, that by the time we start chanting It Can't Happen Here, whatever it is is usually already happening here. I doubt it is all that different anywhere else.

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