Reply #41: while I share the most worries expressed here... [View All]

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...and above all DETEST the current "administration" and everything they stand for ( quite superfluous to state, maybe... ), I still find that many of you act like all is lost already.
In my opinion, you're (still) far away from how Germany was 70 years ago and like bushmeister said, Putin and his oligarchy is a better comparison anyway.
So what's my point? I would like to compare the current regime to a disease and America is the patient. For years, the disease could do what it wanted, there was nothing opposing it, no immune system.
But, isn't the immune system just waking up? ( Read Nancy Gregg's latest article )

And since this thread is so keen on proverbs, how about this : "what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger."

In other words, may the time come when the mess is sorted out ( what will be a LOT of work, I admit ), couldn't this leave American democracy stronger than before? And the Bush era would be an era in the history books as something that was overcome like the McCarthy era...

Victor


PS : After all, the republicons were lucky not only that 9/11 happened but also that the public trusted the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time too much. Otherwise, the Enron scandal unfolding in 2001 might have broken the ape's neck already.

PPS : in case I err, is there anything good the republicons have done while they were in office since WWII? I just don't know. I mean, the policies that lead the world here, namely to beef up saddam or bin laden against Iran or the Soviets were all republicon ideas, right?! Rumsfeld might know...