Like many DU'ers, my father was a WWII vet. I just can not imagine the current political climate happening while he ...

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49. My lifelong republican mother voted for Obama twice

after seeing the evil of cheney, bush, rove, et al. When she voted for Obama in 2012, at age 100, she said to me "I'm afraid they're going to kill him," they being the Tea Baggers, later morphing into Magats. She died just in time to miss The Slobfather's nomination. She detested him since witnessing his rise in the 1980's and '90's.

Yes, there were some Nazi sympathizers here in the 1940's and '50's, but the vast majority of that population would have recoiled in horror at the thought of the orange anus holding any public office. Hate radio & TV, the internet, and social media turned millions into zombies.