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2. Unfortunately, these are all liars, thieves, and cheats,

Reply to Iliyah (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:51 PM

Oct 2017

just less incompetent and/or effectively crazy ones who realize their extremist party is pulling our nation over a cliff.

Their counterparts couldn't stop what they unleashed in Germany last century, but that was a very different time and place. We are a far, far stronger democracy than a broken Germany was during its first little 15-year experiment after centuries of authoritarian rule.

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Corker helped open the gates . . . just saying. Iliyah Oct 2017 #1

Unfortunately, these are all liars, thieves, and cheats, Hortensis Oct 2017 #2

Agreed. Also, we are diversed. Iliyah Oct 2017 #3

I like to think that. Unlike Germany, we have many Hortensis Oct 2017 #4