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In reply to the discussion: How close is America to a dictatorship? [View all]A HERETIC I AM
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I really don't think there needs to be any other illustration.
If anyone thinks that Americans are somehow immune to it, and somehow magically different than the Cubans of 1955, the Germans of 1931, the Chileans of the early 70's, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam, they are sorely mistaken.
Trump is using a very well read, incredibly dog-eared playbook, and almost half of the American electorate is willingly falling for it, hook, line and sinker.
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If the GOP keeps the Senate & the WH, it's game over for the US as we know it, IMO.
CrispyQ
Dec 2019
#1
We've got cruddy leadership right now, but don't feel we are close to a dictatorship. GOPers said
Hoyt
Dec 2019
#2
You can sit home and encourage people not to waste time voting if you like, I'm not. We won 2018,
Hoyt
Dec 2019
#107
Our 70 yr president harasses 16 yr old girls on twitter & that's not disqualifying to his supporters
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#4
He doesn't need numbers. Just crooks in the right places. And he now has that in spades.
pangaia
Dec 2019
#17
I always wondered how it happened in Germany. Never did I think a spineless, coward like McConnel
dem4decades
Dec 2019
#85
Are we not there? The Senate has promised a kangaroo court for acquittal of a dictator.
Karadeniz
Dec 2019
#37
But...we KNOW that. And, as long as we know, isn't there always time to fix it? nt
coti
Dec 2019
#40
I've been asking the same question lately, especially with Bill Barr's recent actions
Ohioboy
Dec 2019
#48
You could just respond to the points made instead of engaging in ad hominem attacks.
Garrett78
Dec 2019
#57
LOL. Nice try. You've continually refused to do anything but engage in ad hominem attacks.
Garrett78
Dec 2019
#69
The vast majority of posts don't get read, much less receive a reply. That's the best you can do?
Garrett78
Dec 2019
#71
You lose G78....start a thread....with this BS...I'll be glad to knock it out
AncientGeezer
Dec 2019
#73
LOL. You lost after your first reply. Cop-outs and ad hominem is all you've got. And contradictions.
Garrett78
Dec 2019
#74
We'll be a gnat's eyelash away from it if the Democratic candidate loses the presidential election.
Efilroft Sul
Dec 2019
#72
Already are a dictatorship and will be as long as the rethuglicons are in charge.
democratisphere
Dec 2019
#86
We have the House....we are stopping him..Speaker Pelosi is allowing a "dictatorship"...no
AncientGeezer
Dec 2019
#93
Check back with me in January 2020 after Moscow Mitch and the rethuglicons
democratisphere
Dec 2019
#95