Bold Prediction - in a few years the USA will be just like Germany was in the 1930s - only worse

[tenderfoot]

That's all.

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. The fascists won.

I hate to be so negative but I can’t pretend things that have happened haven’t happened. They won a long time ago, we’re just coming to the coup de grâce.

They played the game to win. We played it like it was a fair fight with clearly defined and enforced rules.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. I think you're right about that.

[onenote]

2. I suggest you go back to school and study Nazi Germany

And the Holocaust.

[tenderfoot]

8. Tell us how they got to the holocaust

[Stinky The Clown]

3. That is a reasonable assertion

I can't argue with you.

[BannonsLiver]

4. And the nominees for most OTT post on election night are...

[Philosophizing Fool]

6. Based upon what?

A setback in Va., without a doubt. Progressive ideas and politics have between building over the last decade. I see the castles of sand built by the other side being finally washed into the seas of history. The arc of history has been progressive, no reason to start despair and depression over the results of a single state.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. lol c'mon now.

[roamer65]

9. The United States will be more like the former Yugoslavia.

That’s a prime example of when a multiethnic country disintegrates.

[ForgedCrank]

10. Oh for shits sake.

I hope this is just sarcasm and you don't actually believe that.

[uponit7771]

11. SPAIN !!! Remember Hitler was ***LEGALLY*** placed into office and Nazis legally won elections ...

... without voter suppression

[Gaugamela]

12. I would argue we're already there. Early thirties. We've had our beer hall putsch, we're past

the “Hitler’s a harmless buffoon” phase, and waiting for the Reichstag fire and the enabling act.

[Progressive Jones]

13. I can see why you feel that way, but unlike most Germans in 1930s Germany,

there are many of us here in this nation who are willing to take any action necessary to prevent such a scenario.

[TeamProg]

14. What bothers me is our trending toward the lowest common denominator ie: stupidity, ignorance, self-

importance, fear, hate.

Add the Dunning-Kruger effect with confirmation bias and apophenia and we've got trouble.

[Hekate]

15. Some of us old people have been watching the whole past 5 years with creeping horror...

Who knew it would be so easy and so fast to hollow out the federal government of the US? We already stand on the cusp. The energy is with the minority (30% - 40%) who are full of vile hate.

However, the pushback you are getting and will continue to get is from those of us who are still holding out hope that we can turn this around. If enough of us give up hope the other side really will win. So work for the good, throw your energy into the good, and bring others with you.