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Mick Travis

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21. Thank you!

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #15)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:51 AM

Aug 2020

We are in scary times.

My father escaped to England on the Kindertransport after his Bar Mitzvah in Berlin in 1938 (he was born in Berlin). The rest of my family stayed in hiding, but my Aunt and Grandmother were also involved with an anti-Nazi event known as Rosenstrasse after my grandfather was arrested.

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Right wingers haven't been this crazy since [View all] Garion_55 Aug 2020 OP

They have NEVER been this crazy Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #1

Disagree Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #4

Yes, Trump attacked political correctness and freed them to say or do anything they want. Lonestarblue Aug 2020 #8

oh really? Celerity Aug 2020 #14

"The Court has put the n...rs in and thrown God out." kiri Aug 2020 #17

and his ideological and spiritual heirs are determined to reverse that by any means necessary Celerity Aug 2020 #18

Since MLK was arrested in Birmingham (and the subsequent years that followed) Buckeyeblue Aug 2020 #2

I saw a right-winger suggest placing unemployed black people to work... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #3

I have no doubt that they were completely serious Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #6

Oh they were completely serious. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2020 #7

a little outside reading : rampartc Aug 2020 #5

Yes, thanks, the roots of the party are still cloudy. bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #9

As far as crazy reich wingers go, I'll also submit Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and those who killed JFK. CaptYossarian Aug 2020 #10

We're seeing the same phenomena that occurred in Germany in the 1930s Yeehah Aug 2020 #11

You are 100% correct Mick Travis Aug 2020 #12

I have been fearing what you talk about for a long time and we are perilously close to smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #15

Thank you! Mick Travis Aug 2020 #21

Wow, what a story. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #22

They aren't lies Boomer Aug 2020 #19

We have to do something about the propaganda feeding the divisions in this country! Dustlawyer Aug 2020 #13

Confederate flag Party of Lincoln keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #16

Actually, the have Oscarthegreat Aug 2020 #20