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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:53 AM
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Poll question: How many of us think we will live to see the end of the BushPutinist State in Amerika?
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Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 10:06 AM by tom_paine
This question was prompted by a couple of books I am currently reading.

2 volumes: "I Will Bear Witness" by Victor Klemperer

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Bear-Witness-1933-1941-Paperbacks/dp/0375753788

I finally picked these books up because I had to know, from the perspective of a regular person "on the ground", exactly how different Amerika 2007 was from Nazi Germany 1937.

The answer, frighteningly enough, is not much at all. Germans, even as late as 1943, were behaving kindly towards Liberal Jews.

Examples: In 1942, Klemperer is pulled to shovel snow in Dresden (just like Schindler's List). The foreman treats him kindly and says things like "I can't tell you to work slower. You have to tell yourself.

As they are shoveling, in mid-1942, a woman walks by and snorts in open disgust, "So, THIS is what Germany has come to. Anyone can see you all have other professions..."

Shopkeepers treating Liberal Jews kindly, even as late as 1943, giving them rations without coupons, or giving a little extra where possible.

I actually think this is BETTER treatment than the Imperial Subjects of Amerika would give to any group designated as "terrorists", in my opinion. But we will have to wait and see to compare.


There are many other examples of Germans behaving like we would never dream they did, certainly after 1941. Read the book to see them for yourself.

And it appears as if Hitler never really had more than 2/3rds support...most "supported" him by being silent and doing nothing. The number of Hannity-watching Bushies, I mean strongly-pro-Nazis, seemed never to rise much higher than the 15-20% it is today in Amerika.

So, psychologically, I would say that the Imperial Subjects of Amerika RIGHT NOW are so much closer to the composition and mindset of the 1937 German it is not to be believed.

Finally, the reason for my question:

As it fnally dawns on Klemperer what is happening and where his country is going, he repeatedly prophesied that he would not outlive the current incarnation of Totalitarian Evil.

He was wrong. He did live through it. But as a German Jew, he had to survive against the odds of roughly 20,000 to 1 (the number of German Jews before 1938 in ratio to the number of German Jews who survived until 1945)

Therefore, his prophesy, while prescient, did not turn out to personally apply to him.

So I ask again: Do you think you will live to see the end of the BushPutinist State in Amerika?


A couple of notes on replies:

This question DOES NOT ask if you think the Bushies are going to open up the Halliburton Concentration Camps and start making soap out of Liberal Skin (they wouldn't that specifically, but only because of the bad-PR associations with such an act).

This question, therefore, DOES NOT ask HOW you think your death might come. Natural causes, hit by a bus, or clubbed by Bushie Sormtroopers (although they won't call themselves that, perhaps Dittoheads, which is the same basic title, only described with a more positive PR spin)...it doesn't matter.

This question DOES NOT ask about the 2008 "elections", since I have become nearly convinced that not even the unlikely (because of the massive Bushevik Vote Theft, Suppression, and Inflation strategies, four times now unchallenged, that will continue to expand it's power) event of a Democratic landslide that gives the Dems all three branches of Imperial Governance, can solve the larger issue of the Death of the American Republic and the Shredding of the Constittuion.

So I ask again: Do you think you will live to see the end of the BushPutinist State in Amerika?
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