Me, my 86 year old mother & I had ........

[mrmpa]

a Penguin celebratory brunch with 3 friends. Our friends are 82, 81 and 80, I'm the youngest at 59. I know all of us are die hard Democrats. But our 80 year old friend has never really spoken politics. She's been widowed a little over a year and was taking care of her husband so I think a lot of her efforts were directed to that.

Today she told us she is totally afraid of Trump, she's waiting to hear sig heil at his rallies (she even gave the Nazi salute), she said he wants nothing but things to be his way & wants to know how stupid are the people who will vote for him.

This woman who is white and has a grandson married to an African-American woman, worries for their children, her great grand kids. The other 2 are a married couple, 2nd marriage for both. The woman's late daughter was gay. She cried when we talked about Orlando.

All of us are angry about Trump's treatment of the media & also the media's deference to Trump.

If these seniors "get" it, why don't more people?

[procon]

1. They've lived through enough history to remember the consequences of an earlier despot.

The lessons of history are often ignored, or even dismissed, but they probably recognise the similarities.

[mrmpa]

2. And I used to teach History............

so I see the similarities too.

[annabanana]

3. I want to tell every single Trump Chump to ask

their parents, or grandparents.. the WWII generation, what they think of Trump. My bet is that they will not be happy with the way his campaign is going...

[demigoddess]

4. I'm not quite that old, but I am an early boomer and I agree

I have all along said trump reminds me of hitler and his people remind me of the crowds that cheered him. But then a lot of the republicans do the same thing just in a smaller way. It is a slow, incremental movement in that direction, so I support and vote for any democrat on the ballot.

[allan01]

5. i was doing nazi salute for rr , dubia 1.0 and 2.0 and now this goon.

i do a variant of the salute w the midddle finger extended.